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One Deadly Sin

Annie Solomon
Forever (2009)
ISBN 9780446178440
Reviewed by Abby Major for RebeccasReads (5/09)

As a child, Eden Swanford’s father was found at the bottom of a quarry, broken and dead.  Her mother was never the same afterward, and spent the last years of her life in a mental institution.   Haunted by her past, Edie is determined to find the cause of her father’s suicide.  On her Aunt’s deathbed, she is finally given a small piece of information – a list of names.  The names are of influential men from the small town where she grew up and her father took his life.

Determined to get answers, and maybe a little revenge, Eden returns to her hometown twenty years after her father’s apparent suicide with a new name (Edie Swann).  She also brings with her little black angel statues that resemble the giant, imposing gargoyle on her father’s tombstone.  She starts delivering each of the men on her list an angel statue, which stirs up old memories and shakes them up.  Something that they wanted to cover up twenty years ago is threatening to be revealed and ruin their prosperous lives.

It all comes to a head when the men Edie has been sending her black angels to start turning up dead.  Is it all a coincidence or is there something more sinister going on in the town of Redbud?  Her angels become the number one piece of evidence in the men’s murders, but she didn’t do it!  Her romantic interest, the Chief of Police Holt Drennen, is turning into her worst nightmare as everything unravels in front of her.   Will Holt believe that she’s innocent?  Will he help her clear her name and get to the bottom of her father’s suicide?

As I read this book, I kept thinking I knew who did it.  At first I was sure it was one person, and then I was sure it was another.  Well, in the end, I was completely wrong and had no idea what was coming.  However, I thought that the ending was a little contrived.  It seemed too coincidental.  Overall though, it is a great book.

I know it is cliché to say, but this book is definitely a page-turner!  I had a hard time putting it down.  For people who aren’t into romance novels, don’t let the label of “Romantic Suspense” turn you away!  It is 90% suspense and 10% romance.  I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery/suspense novels.  Enjoy!

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