Angels In Mourning

By David Wind

David Wind's 34th novel, Angels in Mourning, is a suspenseful thriller following New York City detective Gabriel Storm on a relentless search for the killer of his best friend, Broadway Playwright Scotty Granger. Working alone and with the FBI, Homeland Security, a mafia connection, and the NYPD, Storm races from Hell's Kitchen to Broadway, to Miami's Little Cuba, navigating through a twisted terrain of unlikely suspects including Wall Street financiers, pimps, predators, gangsters, politicians and takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of intrigue, misdirection and excitement on the road to its surprising and suspenseful conclusion.

..."It takes a lot for a work of fiction to impress me but Angels did just that. David Wind has much respect for his readers and it shows." -- Kelly Davis, reviewer, bookideas.com

“A complex and highly intelligent detective story, David Wind’s latest novel demands your attention and pays off big time. Tightly written and intricately plotted, ANGELS IN MOURNING will leave you wanting more—and there’s plenty to choose from among Wind’s thirty-three previous works. Finding such a talented, prolific writer is a mixed blessing: So much to catch up on, and so little time!”
—Ken Isaacson Author of the amazon.com #4 best seller, SILENT COUNSEL.

“Angels in Mourning is a complex and fascinating story with a real surprise at the end.” —Roberta Gellis, best selling author of the Magdalene La Bârtarde Mysteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Wind
• Release date: Nov 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466134652

David Wind

International award-winning author and double B.R.A.G. Honoree, David Wind, has published forty-three novels including Science Fiction, Mystery, and suspense thrillers. David is a Past-President of the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. A Hybrid (Traditional and Independent) Author, David first Indie novel, Angels in Mourning, was a 'homage' to the old-time private detective's of the 50's and the 60's. (He used to sneak them from his parents' night tables and read them as a young boy.) Angels is a contemporary take on the old-style noir detective and won the Amazon.com Book of the Month Reader's Choice Award. David's Contemporary Fiction novel, published in December of 2017, and based on the Harry Chapin Song, A Better Place To Be, received the Bronze Award for Literary Excellence, from Ireland's prestigious DD International Awards; A Better Place To Be was named a B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree, signifying a book of the highest literary quality and written by Independent writers. The first book of David's Epic Sci-Fi Fantasy Series, Tales Of Nevaeh. Born To Magic, is an international Amazon genre Best Seller, a Kindle Review of Books finalist for Fantasy Book of the year, and winner of the Silver Award from Ireland's Drunken Druid International Awards for Literary excellence. Over 80,000 copies of Tales of Nevaeh have been download. His mystery, suspense, Police procedurals, and thrillers are The Hyte Maneuver, (a Literary guild alternate selection); The Sokova Convention, The Morrisy Manifest, Out of the Shadows, and, Desperately Killing Suzanne. He wrote the Medical Thriller, The Whistleblower's Daughter, with Terese Ramin. The idea for this Medical Legal Thriller came shortly after the death of a close friend. David said, "I couldn't help but wonder about the medication...." David's his first nonfiction book, The Indie Writer's Handbook, is a guide to help authors who have completed their manuscripts to publish Independently. The Handbook was David's second book to be awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion for literary excellence..   David’s Links --Visit David's Website at http://www.davidwind.com  

Reviews for Angels In Mourning

[paul_s-289480 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The protagonist who is an ex marine special forces astronaut jet fighter pilot police detective framed for murder of his wife with a selection of sidekicks who are all nothing short of (racial stereotype) superheroes will fight one dimensional cackling villains to solve a murder case of Andrew Lloyd Webber killed before he could finish his next pop musical but not before doing the rewrite and saving girls from a child prostitution ring, all this whilst describing in ridiculous detail the most mundane and irrelevant actions of the main character and dropping brand names like it's a James Bond film.

There is no humour, no wit - only a cringe-worthy unintentional (?) parody of a detective novel. At one point whilst the hero is solving the case by drawing on a whiteboard his FBI agent girlfriend calls him to tell him she just got chewed up by her boss for helping him speak to a local crime boss so he drives her over to his friend's dojo where they practice karate so she can beat him up and warm up for the quick trip to his place to have sex. This actually happens and it doesn't even stick out much from all off the other stupid.