4 people, members of the Payson Church of Tomorrow, died during a fire on 22nd August 1990. Were their deaths an act of mass suicide or murder? Erin saw those flames and 23 years later she decides to uncover the mystery.
Okay, the police did their investigation and ruled it a mass suicide. We all know about religious nutters and how cults work. But the purpose of this novel was to create doubt that it may have been murder. Normally people move on after the event and the police investigation, letting sleeping dogs lay. Erin however, will not move on and so plunges the reader into this mystery.
So I needed to forget about Erin raking up old ground after 23 years and enjoy this novel for what it is. I found Jen Blood very good at planting the seeds of doubt in the reader's mind. The pace was okay and the characters motives were skillfully developed. One of my pet hates is novels that flash back and forth in time. This book keeps flashing back to 1990, which is awkward as the reader is getting information that Erin is blind to. This makes the story a little clumsy but does make you second guess where the plot is going.
I did enjoy the twist and turns along the way with the constant finger pointing. Character development is good and nothing in this story would offend your grandmother. Erin does have the odd kiss but there is no steamy sex. I found this to be a good mystery and although it had it's faults, was still a GOOD read that I will vote 4 stars.
All the blue-eyed angels was written in 2012 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.
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