If Angels Fall [Paperback]

Rick Mofina (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2000

A homicide detective haunted by the unsolved murder of a baby girl; and superb news reporter whose life is coming apart, race the clock to learn the truth behind a string of chilling child abductions that has anguished San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Compelling!" -- Point Reyes Light

"Guaranteed to keep readers flipping the pages." -- Toronto Sun

"If you buy it for the flight, you'll be reading it on the escalator." -- National Post

About the Author

If Angels Fall was nominated for BEST FIRST NOVEL, Arthur Ellis Awards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 477 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786010614
• ISBN-13: 978-0786010615
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #468,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rick Mofina is a former journalist and an award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. His reporting has put him face-to-face with murderers on death row in Montana and Texas. He has covered a horrific serial-killing case in California and an armored car-heist in Las Vegas, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD Air Support Division and gone on patrol with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He has reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait's border with Iraq. His true-crime articles have appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader's Digest and Penthouse.

By 2010 his books will have been published in 8 languages and 16 countries.

His book Blood of Others won an Arthur Ellis Award, and the International Thriller Writers named his book The Dying Hour as a finalist for an inaugural Thriller Award. His thrillers have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Sandra Brown, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, Peter Robinson, Linwood Barclay, Allison Brennan, David Morrell and Kay Hooper.

For more information please visit www.rickmofina.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent crime novel, February 6, 2000

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Dale (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If Angels Fall (Paperback)

This is really a very good book. I picked it up three days ago and couldn't put it down. It's a wonderful potboiler/page-turner about a deeply troubled man who starts snatching kids in San Francisco, with the story hinging on the clock-is-ticking attempts by homicide detectives and a crime reporter to catch the bad guy before he strikes again. From the very first chapter, the story is full of fast-paced, plot-driven suspense and some very well drawn characters, particularly Tom Reed, the cop reporter and Walt Sydowski, the veteran homicide cop. The author has an excellent grasp of newsrooms and police investigative techniques. He cuts to the truth about reporters and the way they do their job, how they detach themselves from a subject and how mercenary they are in pursuit of a story, even in the most awful of circumstances. Tom Reed is the book's hero, but one with his own set of personal flaws. The books takes the reader inside the homicide squad, and gives excellent detail about how cops solve crimes. The San Francisco setting is used to great effect. This novel is full of cool, unexpected plot twists. The story hangs together beautifully, right down to the final pages, with Mofina working in little bits of new detail with every progression in the plot. It's a first novel, and a fine one.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A truly gripping read..., June 10, 2001

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Jonathan Burgoine "bookseller" (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If Angels Fall (Paperback)

Having had the wonderful opportunity to meet Mr. Mofina when he came into my store to do a signing, I had decided to read this book before meeting him, so I could spread the word on the title and the story before his arrival.

Wow.

First off, this book is packed with Mr. Mofina's background in criminal reporting. The crime, the police, the journalists, all of them spring to life and are very plausible. Moreover, he handles not only the adults with skill but grants us a realistic use of youth and children - something many writers fail to accomplish.

This book is a page-turner. I started it and finished it in one sitting, unable to put it aside. The cliff-hanger had me on the edge of my seat (literally), and the story was deeply moving. You can feel for someone who has lost his children, even when he has snapped and now wishes to get them back through murder... Sympathetic villains are hard to do, but Mofina does it well.

I hear word of a sequel, and can't wait to see it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book deserves a lot more than 5 stars!, August 8, 2003

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Janet Slezak "book addict" (Stratford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If Angels Fall (Paperback)

When I ordered IF ANGELS FALL it was because I was looking for another new author I could add to my list of favorites. Well, I definitely found one. Rick Mofina is a genius, and this book is simply awesome!

The plot is gripping and the characters seem to jump off the pages at you, making it impossible to put this one down. I loved the way he made the whole story come together and unravel in front of my eyes so I couldn't even guess how it would end. I loved this book, and will of course read all of his others now.

If you love a good crime novel full of suspense and intrigue, I highly recommend you buy this book now. I promise, you won't regret it!