Jo Burdett's Book Review

The Angel of Death

By Alane Ferguson

4 stars

In Alane Ferguson’s sequel to her first novel “The Christopher killer” called, “Angel of Death” Cameryn has found secrets from her past, and that her long lost mother named Hannah would like to reunite with her. Cameryns character has changed a little, according to her friends Adam and Lyric. She’s grown quieter, and is a darker person. Her two friends and her family are worried that maybe her working with her father as assistant to the corner has finally taken a toll on Cameryn’s person. When confronted, Cameryn gets offended by her friend Lyric’s crude way of telling her, and ends up breaking the friendship off for her work.

The next victim Cameryn has to work on is her Ex-Honors English teacher, Mr. Brad Oakes. The case is especially awkward, seeing as Mr. Oakes seemed to be cooked from the inside out. No burn marks, no fire in the house to be burned with. A truly baffling case. Even with the help of the grump Dr. Moore, Cameryn cannot seem to figure out what is wrong with the body! After interviewing Kyle O’Neil, a boy scout and a close friend of Mr. Oakes-Kyle’s the one who found the body- Cameryn starts to have feelings for the handsome popular guy at school who coincidentally asks her to be his girlfriend. With a boyfriend, and her favorite job at hand, but with the loss of her best friend, Cameryn not only begins to lose faith in her abilities to solve the case of her favorite ex-teacher, but also in the faith she once had in her mother. Cameryns mother is a shadow in the entire book. She has called Cameryn’s work asking to talk to her, and has even sent a letter, detailing as to why she left Cameryn and her father. With an ending that is both sad and joyful, Alane leads the reader to her third installment in the Cameryn series, “The Circle of Blood”. This should guarantee another spell-binding forensics case set by the fabulous Alane Ferguson.

I gave “The Angel of Death” four stars because, Ferguson does lose herself in the relationship problems between Cameryn and her friend Lyric, and The relationship between Cameryn and Kyle. Although its good for character development and such, I was much more anxious to figure out who the killer of Mr. Oakes was, and didn’t care much for the relationship issues. It was a damper on an excellent novel, and I hope that Ferguson does not continue those issues in “The Circle of Blood”. I do recommend “angel of Death” however, to anyone who likes murder mystery novels, or anyone who enjoyed “The Christopher Killer” as much as I did.