The Fallen Angel

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Review #1

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An involved plot which is all resolved in the last pages at break-neck speed. The Inspector repeatedly described as brilliant, intelligent, etc. is nothing of the kind. He rejects the idea that an ‘accident’ could be murder then suddenly changes this opinion for no noticeable reason. Costa usually seems confused, doesn’t understand or is absent.

The history is interesting but too repetitive, as is the description of Mina, the comparisons to the martyred teenage girl Beatrice Cenci and her portrait by Guido Reni, Galileo’s “and yet it moves” for some reason. One minor point: It mentions that Mina is trying purposely to look like Beatrice, even her hair. Yet looking at the actual portrait, Beatrice’s hair is not even shown.

Review #2

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One of the best Hewson books. An unusual mystery, just frustrating enough to keep the reader moving along the discovery process through the streets of Rome. At the end, a challenging resolution and reflections on the nature of evil.
We all participate in evil and still maintain our illusions of goodness. We choose both–doing evil and believing in good. Is it because we are naive or because we are willful? Is it part of our mundane lives, coping with our own problems as best we can? Or is it part of our core handed down even in the mythology we treasure such as: our fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, our religious belief in stories of St. Peter, our legend of Beatrice Cenci?
We imagine ourselves to be like Galileo clinging to Truth despite the pressure to bow to the power of Myth, but we are all Fallen Angels.

Having just been to Italy, I was excited to read a mystery taking place in Rome. I read a lot, have a sound background in literature, and found this book to be disjointed, boring in its many digressions and disfunctional characters, and the plot so manipulated that it came across as unbelievable; the action did not seem to flow from the underlying histories and motivations. I struggled to finish it, and would not be inclined to read this author again.

Review #3

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I have read all of this series and one of my favourite things is the development of the Falcone, Costa, Peroni and Lupo team (with some other recurring characters) and the interplay between them.
This latest in the series carries an excellently researched, compelling and informative story which is definitely an improvement on the last two books in my opinion. I love the intricate webs that Hewson weaves between past and present, with often a fairly simple denouement to bring all the strands together.
What I am not liking is the apparent schism that is forming between the characters. Falcone as the leader has always gone off on slightly different paths, but now Nic seems to be becoming isolated from the others as well. Obviously, with what he has been through, his character has changed but we see far less of the camaraderie that I used to enjoy in these books.
Additionally, Nic’s simpering attachment to the vapid female victim/perpetrators in two out of the last 3 books has irritated me a lot. Without giving anything away, I was somewhat reassured by the ending of The Fallen Angel that he is not quite as gullible as he has appeared recently.

Review #4

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The team is back in Rome and the old Hewson’s touch is back in place. There’s all the mystery of the back alleys and ancient history of the city that makes these books so special. As always the plot twists and turns like the very backstreets of Rome until it reaches its usual unexpected conclusion.

Fifteen year old Nico, his father, and his grandfather reside in Palazzo Colombina, on Venice’s Grand Canal. As Nico’s grandfather, Nonno Paolo, is dying he presents Nico with five manuscripts of his life that he has been writing just for Nico’s eyes. He wants Nico to understand the past and to understand himself. He sees something in Nico that he saw in himself and he wants Nico to learn from the story he has to tell. Paolo’s story takes us back to 1943, when Venice was occupied by the Nazis and the war is on the doorsteps of the citizens. Eighteen year old Paolo’s parents have been killed by a bombing raid and Paolo and his family’s dearest employee have one last weaving job to complete.

Paolo’s family is Italian and are considered newcomers to the area despite having lived there for so long. They have hidden away in their weaving business for years and eventually Paolo realizes that they have hidden away because of him, because he’s different from other boys and that difference has been noticed by more than just his family. People stare and talk so his parents took Paolo out of school and taught him themselves while training him to continue the work of their business.

One day, Paolo makes a decision that changes his life even more than the war and his parents death has changed it. He agrees to hide a Jewish brother and sister who are wanted because they are Jewish and for their fight against the Nazis. Meeting these two, and the doctor and priest that are helping so many of the persecuted in the city, awakens in Paulo a heightened awareness of the war, the injustice, and his feelings towards individuals and himself, that he hadn’t faced at this point.

The story that Paolo writes to his grandson is a bloody, treacherous nightmare of our past and after each of the five chapters we go back to Nico and his thoughts and reactions to the past events. He loves his Nonno Paola and wants to understand what he is trying to teach him but he’s confused by so much of what he learns. The heroism of the past and also the brutality of the past should never be forgotten and that is one of the lessons that Paolo wants to impart to his grandson.

The narration of the story by Richard Armitage is fantastic, and along with the synopsis of the book, what drew me to this story. The brutality that is inflicted on those in Venice mirrors the rest of the world’s horror during this time but what I remember is a doctor and a priest who put others before themselves. Paolo ever forgets these people and his housemates during that time and he wants his grandson to hold this story close to his heart, learn from it, and use it in his future.

Review #5

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Having just been to Italy, I was excited to read a mystery taking place in Rome. I read a lot, have a sound background in literature, and found this book to be disjointed, boring in its many digressions and disfunctional characters, and the plot so manipulated that it came across as unbelievable; the action did not seem to flow from the underlying histories and motivations. I struggled to finish it, and would not be inclined to read this author again.

This ninth Nic Costa book follows closely on the heels of “City of Fear.” Nic’s present adventure takes the reader deep into Rome, not only into the complex family life of the man, Gabriel, who has apparently plunged to his death from a faulty scaffold, but deep into the ancient Cenci family and the mythology that surrounds that fateful clan.
Three days into his August holiday, Nic comes upon a young English girl, Mina Gabriel, bending over her father’s dead form. The similarities to Beatrice Cenci, a tragic Roman figure, are striking. As are the parallels between the Gabriel family and the Cenci family. To begin with, the death happened on Via Beatrice Cenci, where the family has been staying. Something about the accident, about the way Mina looks at him and about the way her brother disappears after an enigmatic statement, `She’s safe now,’ compels Nic to investigate, even thought it’s August and, as everyone reminds him, he’s on holiday.
So is almost everyone else at the Questura, the police department where Nic works. This makes investigation a little more difficult. The fact that the other police don’t at first think the death is suspicious gives Nic more problems. Why was Mr. Gabriel, an intelligent, popular, respected academic, reduced to living in this dilapidated building in the ghetto? Is the answer in the family’s tangled history or in further links to the Cenci history? Mina and her mother are obviously holding something back, but nothing will make them reveal what it is.
An ancient organization, The Brotherhood of the Owls, with links to Galileo, may hold some clues. But then, again, it may just add to the confusion.
Meanwhile, an attraction to Agata Graziano–a beautiful woman who has given up the vocation of nun–is tugging at Nic. Will the memory of his deceased wife let him pursue whatever might become of a relationship with her?

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