Broken Wings: A Danny Roberts Novel

by Darren Scanlon

BROKEN WINGS is the second instalment in the Danny Roberts series of suspense/thriller novels based in the north of England. With a hint of gangland rivalry and interspersed with plenty of the authors characteristic sarcastic, dry humour, the story makes for an entertaining and thrilling read.

Here we see our hero pitted against one of his deadliest foes to date.

For Sarah Jennings, marital bliss has become a distant memory. Something broke down and now she fears not only for her own life but' more importantly, the life of her five year old daughter.

The one place they should have felt safe is now the one place they must escape from.

193 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 2, 2014

Reviews

[John Dizon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Broken Angel by Darren Scanlon is a well-crafted novella set in the small town of Milton Keynes, the City in the Forest of Buckinghamshire in jolly old England. Danny ‘Steve’ Roberts, heir to his father’s Robertson’s Warehousing enterprise, has connections to an old-time black market network perpetuated by old Tom, the owner of the Dog & Partridge tavern. Things run smoothly in the quaint little community until organized crime rears its head in the visage of Vincenzo ‘Vincent’ Angel and his creepy henchman, Viktor Lazlowsky. The death of Joanne Lawson provides the kickoff to this melodramatic whodunit, and Steve vs. Vincent is the main event that keeps you turning pages until the smoke clears and the blood dries.

What makes this work is the pastoral ambiance provided by the rural English backdrop. Scanlon brings us from the prim and proper offices of Robertson’s, kept tidy by Steve’s sidekick Jess Chapman, to the staid and steadfast environs of the Dog & Partridge. It hardly seems the scenario for a rape/murder, but when Joanne is found dead and all signs point to the volatile Vinnie Angel, the climactic confrontation is not far ahead. Johnny Samson, Tony Howcroft and Dave Saunders are Steve’s loyal followers, determined to even the odds as their friend takes a hand in bringing the bad guy to justice.

The author’s webpage hints at a series to follow, and Broken Angel by Darren Scanlon will keep you waiting impatiently for more to come.