Angel of Death: A Serial Killer Targets Ex-cons in the City of Brotherly Love and its up to One Woman to Stop Him

PHILADELPHIA , PA-- A known pedophile is found murdered and brutally mutilated in a seedy back alley in North Philadelphia. B. Angelo, Philadelphias top Homicide detective is assigned the case and even though she has a personal dislike of the victim, shed handle the case as she would any other. Angel of Death (To be released November 2003 through Just my Best Inc.) is a present day police drama by Rosanna Filippello.

Upon investigation, Detective Angelo discovers that it wasnt a random killing and that his killer knew the victim. Soon the body count starts adding up and the only common link is the fact that they were all ex-convicts, killed ritualistically with a unique weapon. She is forced to work with another detective, Dwayne Ronalds, who she believes is only interested in his own advancement and career.

Even though their personalities clash and they dont particularly like each other, the detectives work together to uncover the killers identity. The killer, however, is determined to complete his mission, given to him by God, even if that means he has to go through Detective Angelo to do so. Will Angelo be able to find him before more men die or will he destroy her first?

Rosanna Filippello was born and raised in Philadelphia, Penn. and graduated from Cardinal Dougherty High School in 1986. She then attended Temple University for a time before joining the police force in 1993. Filippello works as a patrol officer in the Fighting" Fourteenth District of the city. A lover of writing since a young child, she acquired a thirst for reading while growing up. Angel of Death is her third book and is the first book in the Angelo Mystery series.

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Look for Book Two "Angel of Justice", Fall 2004.

Customer Book Reviews

Fine new police novel
Rosanna Filippello's third novel, Angel of Death, is an impressive breakthrough for this young mother/police officer/novelist. This is not an Agatha Christie whodunit so much as a Georges Simenon tale of a vicious criminal, chillingly portrayed against a background of finely detailed local (Philadelphia) settings, police procedures, and quirky minor characters. The life of the central figure, Police Detective B. Angelo, is moved and changed by events even as she moves and changes the lives of the suspects, her colleagues and her husband.

A nice mix...
...of police procedural and romance. Detective B. Angelo is hunting a serial killer targeting convicted felons, while dealing with her husband's ongoing recovery from a serious accident and doing her best to keep the two areas of her life--professional and personal--separate. I enjoyed the story and hope to see more--especially if the secondary characters, particularly Beatrice, make another appearance.

An eye for an eye...
A great procedural thriller gets off to a fast start when the villan decides that ex cons are to be punished in the old testament way, an eye for an eye. As each body turns up killed in a way befitting the crimes he had committed, the heroine, a veteran Philly policewoman searches for the connection. Saddled with a partner who is more interested in politics that police work, she struggles on and, in the process, teaches the partner the value of determination and thoroughness. As she gets close to the killer, he decides that she has to go. The story rushes to a roller-coaster climax that is sure to please.
The author keeps the identity of the killer from the reader until the last even though there are clues a-plenty in the book.
The characters are fresh and alive and the story flows. A must read.

This cop's got it where it matters! (in the book, I mean),...
First, let me say I enjoyed this book. The actual reading of it was easy, clear and not once did I have to reread a paragraph or sentence to reacquaint myself with what was going on. (You know how sometimes you get lost in the text and have to reread a section or two; not in this book.) Filippello is clear in explaining to you what's happening in any given scene. The characters are all in all well rounded and, since this book is the first in a series, are destined to be even more so. The most enjoyable aspect of Filippello's story was the hidden light of passion behind each page, a light that shone with her love of being a police officer. I don't think any author, no matter what research they did, could make the cops in this book as real as they came across. From the dialogue to the mannerisms, this is true police behavior. The kind of stuff you'd see happening in the background of an "NYPD Blue" episode, but even more so. Except Filippello brings it all to the foreground and, for the duration of the book, you feel like you're a cop yourself.
Book Two, I'm sure, is going to be even better. At least, that's the goal of an author (I hope)-to improve their craft and show said improvement in their latest release. I do it, and I know others who do it too.
If I were forced to nitpick this book, there's not much I could say. I would only suggest that the intensity of the deaths be taken up a notch and for the book's ending not to have felt like it was rushed. This is not a bad thing, mind you, but I wanted to live in the resolution a little longer and/or experience each second in the final moments before the killer is revealed and the protagonist's reaction to that revelation, and any and all action that followed.
This is a good read. Buy it. I'm waiting for Book Two.