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    Angels in the Gloom

    Written by Anne Perry

    Narrated by Michael Page

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    Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family-brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley, and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are fighting not only the Germans but the bitter cold and the appalling casualties of the Battle of Somme. Scarcely less at risk, Matthew, an officer in England's Secret Intelligence Service, fights the war covertly from London. Only Hannah, living with her young children in the old family home in tranquil Cambridgeshire, seems safe.

    Appearances, however, are deceiving. By the time Joseph returns home, rumors of spies and traitors are rampant in Cambridgeshire. And when the body of a savagely murdered weapons scientist is discovered in a village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settles over the town-along with the shadow of the obsessed ideologue who murdered the four siblings' parents on the eve of the war. Once again, this icy, anonymous powerbroker, the Peacemaker, is plotting to kill.

    Perry's kaleidoscopic new novel illuminates an entire world, from the hell of the trenches to a London nightclub where a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade; from the sequestered laboratory where a weapon that can end the war is being perfected to the matchless glory of the English countryside in spring. Angels in the Gloom is a masterpiece, steeped in history and radiant with truth. It warms the heart even as it chills the blood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 30, 2005
    ISBN9781597100168
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    Angels in the Gloom
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    Anne Perry

    With twenty million books in print, ANNE PERRY's was selected by The Times as one of the twentieth century's '100 Masters of Crime', for more information about Anne and her books, visit: www.anneperry.co.uk

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    • 4/5
      Angels in the Gloom is the third book in Anne Perry' series about World War I. Joseph is wounded saving a life in No Man's Land. He's home on leave when a crucial scientist at the nearby 'Establishment' is murdered. Will the man's loss cripple the war effort?Ms. Perry manages to get Matthew Reavley on site for the Battle of Jutland. It's a tense scene to listen to. We know that Matthew is wrong about the Peacemaker's identity, so we get to wonder if he will find out in time.There's something else we know that Joseph doesn't and calls into question the guilt of Joseph's suspect. In fact, that leads to another suspect. It's interesting how much tension Ms. Perry manages to get in a battle whose outcome has been known for more than a century. Mr. Page's narration helps.
    • 2/5
      This series is proving a partial disappointment to this devoted Anne Perry reader. The mystery part of the plot has been rather slight, and its development dependent on hearsay and gossip. I must confess I found protagonist Joseph Reavley's inexorable logical unraveling less inexorable and logical than he did.I was also troubled by the subplots or vignettes -- for example, that of Joseph's sister Judith, still driving ambulances in Flanders -- that didn't seem to resolve or even recur in the latter part of the book. There were also some minor characters whose moral positions seem underexamined and untenable despite our being asked to relate to them at least partially. In a series as dependent as this one has been on niceties of ethics, that can be troubling.Perry is a good author, and I will give the next book in the series a try. I still care about these characters and the village they hail from. However, had I borrowed this book in paper form, forcing it to compete with my other reading material, rather than in audiobook so I could listen to it as I bake and clean, I might not have completed it.Audiobook: Either the narrator has toned down his emoting, I have gotten used to it, or there simply weren't as many hysterical women or browbeating men for him to chew on, this time. The narration was fine.
    • 4/5
      WWI who-done-it.Read as an abridged audiobook.This was a nice surprise. I had previously read A Christmas Guest and found it to be an unexciting who-done-it. I had expected something similar with Angels in the Gloom but was happy to find that the WWI aspect of the book lifted it considerably from the mundane.The story begins with Joseph Reavley, a chaplain in the army, rescuing injured men from no-man's-land. When he is injured bringing back a man from his own village, he wakes in an army hospital with an injured arm and damaged leg. He is sent home to receuperate with his sister Hannah and her boys. Hannah's husband is at sea with the navy and Joseph's brother, Matthew is working in intelligence.Then a man from the village is murdered and Joseph, in his position as chaplain, becomes drawn into events as he comforts the grieving wife and interacts with his father's old friend Corcoran, who had been the dead man's boss.I enjoyed the picture of life at home while the men were at war and the struggling pastor of the village who had no idea how to be there for his parisioners as word came back from the front of their losses.The who-done-it part had a few unexpected twists and turns and this was altogether a joy to listen to.I did think the court case was lacking in authenticity but otherwise four stars.I hadn't realised that this was the middle book of a five part series but although I would have preferred to have read them in order it did not detract in any way. I will look out for the others and try to read the whole set.My abridged version was well read by Michael Page.Also read:A Christmas Guest by Anne Perry (3 stars)