*100% of all proceeds will be donated to Good Fortune Farm Refuge which will help animals receive medical treatment and loving homes.Elizabeth Maslow is an educated woman living in the isolated town of 1920’s Mission, Alabama. She’s defied the town’s definition of a woman’s place—she’s unmarried and given birth to a child with webbed hands and feet. In a town fraught with superstitions and … superstitions and religious repression, Elizabeth is dangerous.
But Elizabeth is much more than an unwed mother. Since the birth of Callie, who she believes is fathered by an angel, she’s been able to “dream the truth.” And she’s determined to testify in behalf of Slater McEachern, a man charged with the brutal murder of a local woman. Elizabeth insists McEachern is innocent. She’s determined to speak, no matter the cost.
Spirit detectives Raissa and Reginald arrive to help Elizabeth save McEachern—before she ends up on the gallows with him. Raissa and Reginald must unravel a crucial question. Does Elizabeth’s gift come from an angel, or from something much, much darker? In the world of spirits and the dead, Raissa has learned to trust no one, especially not the dead. The dead lie.
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A Visitation of Angels is an intense, intriguing and riveting story. There are so many dramatic things that happen in the book, I had a hard time putting it down. This is the first book of this series I have read but I had no trouble following along. I am looking forward to reading the previous books.
A Visitation of Angels pulled me in and under with swift precision. Slater McEachern has been charged with the grisly murder of an unarmed woman. But this is not Slater McEachern’s story. Elizabeth Maslow – already an outcast in Mission, Alabama – has dreamed of Slater’s innocence and is determined to speak for him.
Mission is a small town of narrow minds and prejudices which doesn’t allow diversity in any guise. And Elizabeth is anything but non-diverse. Although unwed, she has dared give birth to a daughter without remorse or apology to anyone. Worse, the child has webbed hands and feet. The inhabitants of Mission believe Callie to be a child of evil. Elizabeth believes Callie was conceived with an angel.
As they race to identify the real killer, Raissa and Reginald must determine if either belief is true. Or if, perhaps, both are true. For Lucifer was also an angel. The premise of the book, ultimately, is the struggle for supremacy between that which is bright and good and that which is dark and evil. It is a premise that is laid out in a series of breath-taking twists and turns, scenes that will keep your heart pounding and your feet on shifting sand. And though I warn you to read with the lights on, I must also warn that the grip of the story will linger long after sunrise.
A Visitation of Angels is an intense, creepy, edge of your seat book. Written in true Carolyn Haines style. This book kept me captivated, intrigued so I did not want to put it down.
Descriptions of the area made me feel as if I was there with Raissa and Reginald.
This is book 4 in Pluto’s Snitch series but can be read as a stand alone. Although it would be better to start from book 1.
One of my favorite series. I am already looking forward to reading the next book in this series.
Highly recommend!!
I received an ARC prior to publication and decided to voluntarily review it. Opinions expressed are my own.
I really enjoyed A Visitation of Angels. This book is intriguing and it quickly captured my attention. It is exciting and dramatic with so much happening that it is impossible put the book down. I like the characters and found the book so interesting.
I did not really care for this book , but that does not mean that others wont. To each their own.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started this book, I was intrigued by it being set in the 1920’s and the main characters being Spirit Detectives. Certainly not a common occupation.
The heat is on right from the beginning of this book, outsiders are not welcome and if they have different beliefs it becomes dangerous.
Raissa and Reginald have come to this backwoods, isolated town at the request of Elizabeth Maslow, she’s become a target in this cultish environment because she is educated, unmarried, the mother to a child who is very different from the norm and she believes a man accused of murder is innocent because she ‘saw’ the truth in a dream. Not exactly the way to become accepted.
As Raissa and Reginald start their investigating there is more than a little intimidation in the form of being followed everywhere they go. This makes saving a man convicted of a crime he didn’t commit even more difficult. Elizabeth herself is in the path of danger and just keeps putting herself out there.
Then there is that dark entity, one that Elizabeth claims is an Angel. That is more than just a little scary at least to me.
This book had my on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next, it was scary, intriguing, emotional and tearful.
I really have to go back to the beginning of this series, I think I’m hooked.
I usually read at bedtime, to fall asleep. Ms. Haines messed with my sleep! Each Pluto’s Snitch is a wonderful stand alone novel, and excellent in the development of these characters. Reginald and Raissa have become my friends and I worry about their safety.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book……..and I highly recommend it. I can hardly wait for the next one!
A Visitation of Angels by Carolyn Haines was a sad, chilling, creepy and enthralling story from beginning to end. Although this is book four in this series, it can easily be read as a stand alone.
Raissa and Reginald have their hands full with this one as this small community is in the grip of sinister forces that will do whatever is necessary to keep their place in this world. This smoothly paced plot was filled with deep emotions, twists, clear descriptions of the characters and the community and action as Raissa and Reginald discover more about the evil that has invaded this small town. Ms. Haines is a master storyteller that never disappoints.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book. All of the above opinions are my own.