Six days to go before <em>The Fallen Angel</em> comes out in the US and, after the earlier starred review from <em>Publishers Weekly, </em>the mainstream critics are starting to weigh in. Here's <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/04/david_hewson_soars_and_marcia.html" target="_blank">Cleveland.com in its roundup of the latest thrillers</a>.
<blockquote>A man falls from a rickety scaffold, and Rome policeman Nic Costa is nearby. The corpse was a scholar, almost universally disliked. His landlady, his glacial wife and now-disappeared son are all suspects, but none seems as implicated as his daughter, whose life eerily parallels that of a woman the Vatican tortured and executed four centuries earlier. David Hewson ends nearly every chapter in a cliffhanger, and his writing is good enough to glow in the dark. His characters are fresh and vivid, his story deftly constructed, and his portrait of modern Rome dazzles. <strong>Grade: A</strong></blockquote>
I'm up against some big competition there too. So thank you Cleveland! Haven't been in town since covering an Indy race there years ago -- but I hope I can make it for Bouchercon there next year.