Night Angel Author:Kate Green NIGHT ANGEL — Acclaimed novelist and poet Kate Green, nominated for an Edgar Award for her first novel, Shattered Moon, is back in high form with this spellbinding tale of magic, mystery, and murder. When six former college housemates reunite after the disappearance of a friend, the truth that emerges threatens to destro... more »y them all. Set in the San Francisco of the eighties but drawing the reader back to the University at Berkeley in the turbulent sixties, Night Angel is a taut thriller in which long-dormant, sinister events of the past come back to haunt...and to kill.
After an almost twenty-year absence, Maggie Shea is returning to San Francisco to attend the memorial service for her close friend Lora Mayhew, lost at sea and presumed dead. As she flies back to the scene of her remarkable college days, Maggie reminisces about her old crowd, who will all be together again for the first time in a long while. Memories intact, she speculates about the changes the years may have wrought. And although the group reassembles with camaraderie, the unresolved mystery surrounding Lora's death casts a pall over everyone. It is Maggie who must ask the uneasy questions the others evade, questions that shine suspicion over each one.
Amid Haitian hexes, lost love, and flying bullets, Maggie struggles to sift through clues and find her answers. Will her memory hold out until she discovers the link between past and present? Will she be able to sort out the New Age rhetoric from the haunting realities of ancient mysteries to name the killer...or will she become the next target?
Brilliantly weaving together an unusual combination of elements in a thriller - voodoo, memories, and witchcraft - Kate Green has created a novel of electrifying suspense that will surprise and enthrall the reader from the first page to the last.« less