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Evil Angel

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RD Larson's pen is quick and to the point. Not a moment, not a word wasted in "Evil Angel". In twenty-four fast moving chapters, Larson weaves a web of mystery, horror, love, and passion not to be easily forgotten.

Hillary goes to Aspen in search of healing. Jack seeks respite from a violent relationship. The mighty hand of fate throws them together in an unforgettable journey that covers the full emotional spectrum. The author writes with conviction, and authority, as her pen dashes from one end of that gamut to the other. And the ski slopes of Aspen will never be the same, as they become the playground for a game of horror when the Evil Angel comes out to play.

With stark, graphic honesty, RD Larson, gives life to characters whose malevolence seem so real, as to raise absolutely no doubt in the reader's mind. Each explicit moment described is vital to their subsequent actions, and we come to know them as they really are.

Larson shows endless versatility and deep knowledge of her subject. She gets the reader right into the psychology of her characters. Right into their deepest and darkest feelings. Her range will take us from the purely naïve to horrifying slaughter. At the end, her writing genius will not leave us thinking this is a simple question of `good guys', vs `bad guys'. Rather, Larson guides us to raise our own questions about the reality of evil minds, misguided souls, and dysfunctional lives.

The shear pace of "Evil Angel" is breathtaking. From the dark moments conjured by the mind of a tortured soul, to the lightness of love, from cruel revenge, to the touch of passion, from mystery to discovery, this book does not stop. Not even at the end, when Larson's magic pen leaves us wanting more.

RD Larson is one of my favorite writers. I literally couldn't put this book down. I highly recommed it.

This romantic, mystery thriller kept me glued. The story picks you up and the momentum carries you right through to the last page.

GREAT AUTHOR! Can't put the book down. I have waited a long time for RD to get her work into print and now she has. I am half way through it and love it. I recommend buying it before Amazon.com sells out!

Keep up the great writing RD.

Love you!

This is the best-written fiction book I've read in some time. I was particularly impressed with RD Larson's gift of creating real and gripping characters, and scenes with a plot that prohibits the reader from taking a break. I went without sleep to finish this one!
As a writing instructor and lecturer, I will not only show this book to my writing students as an example of how to write great fiction but I'd recommend it to all my friends---in fact, I already have!

Evil Angel is a story of a domestic set up. A simple enough scene until something goes wrong with a vengeance. Enter the Evil Angel out to manipulate and justify what is in her head.
Already drawn in and made part of the cast, the reader is taken along on a journey which is fast and furious.
Forget about taking breaks, pausing for breath, the Evil Angel is on your shoulders watching,waiting, and that is exactly how it is through the book leading up to a climax where characters line up, as in a stage play, to certainly interact with evident mayhem and violence.
In the middle of the story,no right through it from start to finish, the reader has an affinity for a poor young baby. Something good will happen to the baby? Perhaps. But the only way to discover is to read the book and then you'll wonder, when you next go to church, if a certain Evil Angel is rubbing shoulders with you.
The Evil Angel looks so ordinary and beautiful,I've heard.
I'm a thriller writer and have a gut feeling that something lurks below the surface of this pond of life. Now I've thought some more I'm keen to tackle RD to find out if what I suspect might become a sequel to Evil Angel. But will RD spill the beans. Well, the baby grows up to be beautiful. And we all know what strange things happen to beautiful women...

Having previously read the wonderfully tender "Mama Stories," RD surprised me with "Evil Angel," a gripping and suspenseful piece that displays her wide-ranging writing skill. Read them both. You won't be disappointed. Her vivid portrayals and characters go well beyond simply putting words to a concept or capturing scenes from a dream--she must have actually been there! How else could she give such clarity? Her abilities scare me!

These two books are hallmarks of her endless imagination, endless talent.

Lad Moore
Story Editor, WebSeen

In Evil Angel, RD Larson writes with uncanny experience about a world we seldom witness--the inside of the most evil of minds. This story takes one through a journey of dark thoughts, intricate schemes, shifting plots, and unpredictable twists of mystery. Just when you think the trail has revealed itself, the direction cleverly shifts and you are left following the wrong path. As a thriller, Evil Angel is masterfully done, keeping the reader in suspense until the last. Nicely written! I recommend it highly!

I can't say I have been emersed in any book that I have read this year--until Evil Angel. I was intriged by the mental illness and/or evilness of "Terri" and the quick pace of the book. It is not a long book, but is jam-packed and very entertaining-A great read! R.D. Larson is a favorite e-author of mine and her "Mama Stories" are becoming a big hit. I was excited to see her work, Evil Angel here at Amazon. The story is set in Aspen and she pulls the reader onto the snowy slopes. You won't be disapointed- I could see it becoming a movie, perhaps?

This is a deliciously suspenseful novel, with a fascinatingly insane, immensely rich and seductive whirlwind wreaking havoc in the lives of a lot of more or less normal, even likeable people. What will she do next? You HAVE to keep reading -- you can't just leave those characters on the brink of some new disaster. And the sex. Well, actually, the foreplay, because Terri Hamilton, the homicidal maniac egged on by her evil angel, is mostly into titillation, and even the saner people -- her soon-to-be ex-husband Jack and his new flame Hilary -- can't get much beyond foreplay before Terri breaks in to spoil their tryst. The story builds up tremendous tension and at the end -- or nearly the end, because we're left to guess what becomes of Terri -- we just let our breath out.

This is an impressive story. It's not an ordinary detective story. The reader knows what's going on. Hil and Jack don't. Detecting and deducting is for sure done, but the policemen draw the wrong conclusions from the clue and the circumstantial evidences. Terri "solves" her own murders by trying to kill her husband and Lilly in front of so many people.

The structure is very good and the story is very well done, perhaps a little bit to repetitive here and there. Some sequences are like transport stretches, where nothing really happens that moves the story. On the other hand that is justified since it lulls the reader into a sense of security, throwing her (or him) off guard when things all of a sudden happens. One transport stretch read like an ad for Aspen.

The interesting person is of course this obsessed woman carrying around her baby, screaming and killing, when she is not shrewd and calculating. The description of Terri is not only terrific but the result is terrifying. She transcends the tough women of Hammett, Chandler and Spillane. She more than hardboiled and represents some kind of total evil and total egoism, perhaps also egotism. And of course she is sick, very much so. m