Broken Angel by Brian KnightMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The town of Clearwater, Iowa is quiet and safe just like most typical small American towns. They don't have problems with violent crime. That is until the day a teenaged girl is found abandoned in the town cafe. She's been heavily drugged and has no memory of who she is or how she got there.
Clara has taken in unwanted children as fosters before and can't bear the thought of this poor girl being locked up in a mental hospital. Since the girl's parents can't be found and she doesn't know her own name, Clara begins to call her Angel. Angel settles in at Clara's place and befriends her new foster brother Grim, and his girlfriend. Since this is a horror story it all begins to go downhill from there.
Angel is strange. She appears normal, but something is a little bit off about her. Unrest follows her, beginning on the day when she was first noticed quietly sitting in the cafe. A string of deaths and disappearances occur and while nobody can prove that Angel is involved she begins to apologize for the trouble she is causing. We never do find out exactly what it is about Angel that is so unsettling or that causes so much violence in her wake.
Great writing, great use of suspense. Just enough gore without being over the top.
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