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Title: Death of an Angel by Donald A. Davis ISBN: 0-312-95277-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The book was well written........
Comment: the story is horrible. The twisted tale keeps the reader interested. The sick Hightower and the way he kills the family will stay with you for a long time. It still turns my stomach when I think of it. I can only hope there is a hell and Hightower will be sitting there.
Rating: 4
Summary: Above Average Murder Story
Comment: This book manages to rise above the dizzying plethora of paperback murder stories that seem to be inundating the literary market recently, primarily because of Davis's skill as a writer and the frankly fascinating and very sad story that he tells. Although I have certain reservations with Davis's style, I still must take my hat off to him and commend him for what he has accomplished in this book. It's the rare crime writer who can keep the reader's interest going through the often interminable police investigation that follows murder and the resulting courtroom scenes, but Davis skillfully manages this rare feat and keeps the suspense level high until the bitter end. He's also able to keep an often complex and intricate story moving briskly along and never does the narrative lose its inherently compelling qualities. You'll be hard put to find a more repugnant murderer than Christopher Hightower and your heart will break as you read how he cold-bloodedly wipes out an entire family for his own sociopathic ends. My only complaint with the book is that Mr. Davis makes little attempt to explain how a Christopher Hightower comes to be the warped, malignant mockery of a human being that he ultimately became, relying instead on superficial platitudes about the nature of good and evil and shallow moralizing. Perhaps this is unfair to Mr. Davis, expecting him to make sense of a dilemma that continues to perplex and plague civilized society. It's all well and good to speculate about the banality of evil and the perhaps intrinsic malevolence that resides in the human character but it brings us no closer to understanding what it is that causes one person to undergo the psychic and spiritual metamorphosis, the repellent transformation and disintegration of soul, that renders them capable of causing such a harrowing and haunting tragedy as the Brendel murders. How can a man from such a relatively normal background as Hightower's seems to have been become so callously capable of nearly unimaginable barbarity? Does such hideous evil emerge fully-formed from a vacuum? These are questions we need to ask ourselves as our murder rate continues to rise and become ever more appalling, and our civility as a race continues to diminish. Mr. Davis doesn't answer these questions (it's doubtful that anyone can) but it's imperative that we address them.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first review here is of the wrong book.
Comment: I don't know what book the above reviewer read, but it wasn't this one. This is not a novel, it is a true crime story and a very good one.
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Title: Dead and Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast by Corey Mitchell ISBN: 0786015179 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Death Cruise by Donald A. Davis ISBN: 0312957866 Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Blind Love : The True Story of the Texas Cadet Murders by Peter Meyer ISBN: 0312964129 Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Classics List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Fatal Lie: A True Story of Betrayal and Murder in the New South (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Sally Chew ISBN: 0312970145 Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Classics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Love, Daddy : The True Story of Accused Con Man and Family Killer Christian Longo (St. Martin's True Crime Library.) by Carlton Smith ISBN: 0312986084 Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Pub. Date: 19 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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