Souls of Angels
By Thomas Eidson (Random House, 304 pages, $24.95) Having piqued Hollywood’s interest with his previous westerns—Ron Howard made one into 2003’s The Missing—Fidelity exec Eidson seems to be playing to potential film investors with his latest. Set in 1880s Los Angeles, the improbable tale tracks a young nun investigating whether her estranged father is a killer. She’s a plucky beauty; he’s operatically insane. Throw in a crowd-pleasing theme of redemption, and Souls of Angels, while plodding on paper, shapes up as boffo box office.
Originally published in Boston magazine, December 2007
