| By Mary Menzel: It was a pleasure having “Angels Fall” take place in Hawaii and not the usual New York, Miami, LA scene. Mike Travis, former LA cop, owns and helps run a coffee plantation. Usually Travis avoids any type of police-related work but at the insistence of a good friend he is persuaded to look into the disappearance of a teenage girl. Delving in to this mystery causes Travis to reflect back to his teenage years which cause mental wounds from his past to be reopened. A resident of Hawaii, Baron A. Birtcher gives first-hand, detailed descriptions of the many different landscapes of this state. Birtchers has a casual and relaxed writing style that makes “Angels Fall” very readable. Using well placed flashbacks, Mike Travis’ haunted past is slowly revealed and explains why his current case has such a strong effect on him. Mike Travis is a down–to-earth and plausible character and I hope this is not the last we see of him. |
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