While living with her husband in Florence, Italy, Mary
Warren was brutally attacked by a serial killer who stalked
the women of Florence. Karel Indrizzio had previously
murdered two women and distinguished himself as their killer
by leaving a special gift by their body as his own personal
signature. Indrizzio planned the same fate for Mary and
savagely mutilated her body, but before he could finish his
death ritual, Mary's husband arrived. Although Mary was able
to escape, Ty Warren was killed saving his wife. Indrizzio
was easily apprehended, arrested, and died before his trial.
Two years later, Mary returns to Florence in order to begin
a course in Art History. Mary also decides to resume her
relationship with her former lover, Pierangelo, who Mary
intended to leave her husband for before his death. But the
historically beautiful streets of Florence no longer contain
just the relics of a bygone era: Behind every crumbling ruin
and Renaissance painting Mary sees the ghost of her dead
husband. Although Mary immerses herself in her new life as a
student, the memories of her attack torment her. Florence's
timeless beauty becomes a ghastly apparition which Mary
cannot escape from.
When more women are found murdered in the typical Indrizzio
fashion, Mary's worst fears begin to materialize. Although
Indrizzio was proven guilty of Ty Warren's death, a copycat
killer appears to have adopted Indrizzio's macabre method of
killing. The murdered women become an obsession for Mary
when she stumbles upon photos of the corpses. Mary's
boyfriend warns her against becoming involved with the
recent murders, however Mary's unhealthy obsession with the
dead women slowly begins to consume her, But Mary's sanity
is truly tested when she realizes that the killer is coming
closer and closer to her.
THE FACES OF ANGELS is a chilling psychological thriller set
amongst the ruins of Florence's golden past. Lucretia
Grindle does an exceptional job of evoking the beauty of
Florence's art and architecture while keeping the focus on
Mary's terrifying experience. Mary's paranoia quickly passes
onto the reader as she begins to see the eyes of her
attacker behind every person she encounters on the streets
of Florence. THE FACES OF ANGELS is a stylishly written
suspense novel which transforms the breathtaking beauty of
Florence into the malicious playground of a serial killer.
On a sweltering day in Florence, art student and newlywed
Mary Warren wandered into a shady tunnel of trees. Within
minutes, she was brutally attacked and her husband murdered.
And within months the killer was identified, caught, and
dead. It’s now two years later, and Mary has returned to
Florence at the invitation of her lover – a relationship
that predates what she insists on calling the “accident.”
Crumbling and beautiful, Florence is eternally compelling.
But more and more, what Mary sees is not the glories of the
city, but its dark underside – specifically, one dead young
woman after another. She also can’t help seeing a terrifying
pattern: Either this is a copycat killer, or her husband’s
murderer is still on the loose.
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