Lost Angel
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Faith Wright, granddaughter of the founder of Rejoice, a Christian community in the icy interior of Alaska, has disappeared. And now the elders of Rejoice must look beyond their close-knit village for help.
Nik Kane lost his faith long ago—dissolved in a bottle. Once a decorated detective, now an ex-con, he’s desperate for a second chance. Nothing can give him back his career or family, but the search for Faith may restore his soul.
“Kept me up till the wee hours.”—Sue Henry
“An involving and hard-edged tale of life on the northern frontier.”—San Jose Mercury News
“[A] powerful plot told in spare, journalistic prose. [His] double twists . . . pack a powerful wallop.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“[A] brilliant debut . . . pulses with realism . . . Doogan may have created a new subgenre here: postmodern Alaska noir.”—C. J. Box, author of In Plain Sight
“Gripping . . . fascinating . . . top-notch.”—Booklist (starred review)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Meet Nik Kane, the charming star of a new series by Anchorage Daily News columnist Doogan. Kane, a 55-year-old ex-cop who's also an ex-con, not to mention an ex-husband, heads to the Alaskan interior to do some detective work for a remote religious community called Rejoice. One of Rejoice's leaders, Thomas Wright, has hired Kane to track down his teenage daughter, Faith. Maybe Faith ran away, or maybe she was abducted. Kane only periodically distracted from his detecting by his attraction to a woman he meets at Rejoice quickly learns that Faith wasn't representative of her conservative religious community. A budding feminist with Ivy League ambitions, she also had a sideline income, $500 a week, deposited in a pseudonymous bank account. While Doogan telegraphs the solution to the riddle of Faith's disappearance, engaging, lucid prose more than compensates.
