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Smoke and Mirrors - Murder Mysteries

#72: Sept. - Oct. 2009 (Fiction)
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Smoke and Mirrors - Murder Mysteries

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A new perspective on God and the Paradise Lost story. Instead of portraying Lucifer as having gone against God's will, it shows a detective angel who finds out that everything fits in with the plan in the end. Entertaining.... and one of the quotes moved me a bit...
...he lost interest. He was no longer mine. He belonged to Death. And if I could not have him, then his new lover was welcome to him. I could not bear his presence - I could not endure to have him near me and to know that he felt nothing for me. That was what hurt the most. I thought, I hoped, that if he were gone, that I would no longer care for him. That the pain would stop...
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