Echo of an Angry God

by Beverley Harper

Likoma Island in Lake Malawi is renowned throughout Africa for its exotic and treacherous beauty - and its secret history of human sacrifice, hidden treasure and unspeakable horror. A history that cannot be hidden forever. Lana Devereaux travels to Malawi seeking the truth behind her fathers disappearance near Likoma Island fifteen years ago. But Lana soon finds herself caught in a web of deciet, passion and black magic that stretches back over two hundred years and has ramifications that reach well beyond the shores of Lake Malawi.

Genres: Fiction, Africa

544 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

About the author

Beverley Harper was born in Bulli on the New South Wales south coast. In 1967 she travelled to Africa, intending to spend one year there. She stayed twenty, returning to settle in Australia in 1988. Despite loving the northern tablelands, the memories of Africa have provided the inspiration for her best-selling novels and she visited that continent for research purposes once a year.

Beverley Harper died of cancer in 2002. She rests at peace in the Africa she so loved. Her ashes lay by the Boteti River in Botswana, below a lodge called Leroo-la-Tau. It means footprints of lion.

She left a draft of her final novel, Footprints of Lion, which was lovingly completed by her husband, Robert Harper, and Peter Watt.

Reviews

[Nurul Rabat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has lots of information and plots. I did skip few pages. But all in all, a nice read.

[Lyn Hudson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Could not finish it, too violent

[Peter Jochinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very absorbing storyline, holds you for the whole book. Great read.

[Michelle Freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this book! This was the first book I read of Beverley Harper and she quickly became one of my favorite authors.

[Tony Maxwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Echo of an Angry God



As always Beverley Harper delivers - a well written, interesting story set in Malawi and on the tourist island of Likoma on Lake Nyasa. Her cast of characters are well-drawn and the pace of Echo of an Angry God never slackens!

[Wilma Rebstock · Rating 3 out of 5]

This novel by Beverly Harper is quite entertaining and informative being set in Malawi.



Ms Harper is very popular in Australia and is sometimes considered the Australian answer to Wilbur Smith.

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enjoyable plot if a bit slow a times. Had all the ingredients...heroine, hero, sidekicks, good guys and real bad guys. The end was reasonably predictable although there was a twist. You will need to read the book to appreciate the twist.

[Velvetink]

* Inherited from Mum's shelves.

[Amanda Markham · Rating 2 out of 5]

didn't finish this book. tried really hard but just couldn't get into it

[Amor Nawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book - I was intrigued the whole way. I literally felt I was there with the characters. The characters were well developed and the setting inspiring. Well done Beverley!