Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940's, Joseph Vaughan finds himself at the center of a series of mutilations and killings of young girls. Just a teenager, Joseph becomes determined to protect his community from the killer, but he is powerless in preventing more murders-and no one is ever caught. Ten years later one of his neighbors is found hanging from a rope, surrounded by belongings of the dead girls; the killings cease, and the nightmare appears to be over.
Desperate and plagued by everything he has witnessed, Joseph sets out to forge a new life in New York. But even there the past won't leave him alone-for it seems that the murderer still lives and is killing again, and that the secret to his identity lies in Joseph's own history.
My thoughts
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory is a strikingly memorable story about Joseph Vaughan who has a child in rural Georgia in the forties, loses his dad, and finds the body of a murdered young girl and watches as his mother succumbs to a mental disease. When more girls are killed, Joseph forms a group with his friends to protect their community but yet another one is killed. The killings going sporadically, Joseph grows to a young adult and finds true love with his one-time teacher. After she dies from a fall, he leaves Georgia and goes to Brooklyn to live his dream of becoming a writer. He becomes published, falls in love and she dies in the same fashion as the young girls from his past. Is it Joseph or is the murder tracking him down? This novel is riveting and made me feel for Joseph and the lousy life that was dealt him.
Note: This book was borrowed from my local library.
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