Divine Evil by Nora Roberts Essay

godlike Evil is an interesting novel about crime and romance, written by the popular American author Nora Roberts. She is one of the worlds close to successful and best-loved novelists and has more than 201 million copies of her books in print. The book is about some(prenominal) murders that happened in a small town, called Emmitsboro and the people who were affected by them.In the beginning of the story, Clare Kimball, who was a sculptor, went back to her home-town Emmitsboro to rest from the big city and nidus on her work. She hadnt gone back there in years, due(p) to her fathers suicide. She re-opened her fathers house to live in and started to stay put re-acquainted with the people from the town. She met Cameron Rafferty, who was the towns sheriff. He was a new and influential man. Cameron knew Clare from before they used to be intimate friends in high-school. She seemed actually different to him now, more mature and established as an artist. Clare was really his eccent ric good-looking and well-off.Soon after Clares arrival, unpleasant things started happening in Emmitsboro. Carly Simon, a troubled fifteen-year old teenager, came up missing one evening. For months no one saw her , and her body wasnt undercoat. Almost at the akin time another person was severely drink downed. His name was Biff Stokey, Camerons step-father. Cameron had lost his real father when he was ten years old. That was when his catch Jane remarried Biff Stokey. He was a loud and rough guy, who became a nice husband to Jane, but never really loved Cameron as his son. As Cameron grew older, him and Biff started being enemies.While investigating Biffs murder, Cameron started to get involved with Clare emotionally and sexually. He met her assistant from New York, Angie LeBeau and her husband Jean-Paul. They had line up to visit Clare for the weekend and check on her sculpting. Clares brother Blaire similarly came in town to visit his sister. All four of them were really c oncerned with Camerons investigation.The suspense in the book escalated when Clare almost crashed into a panic-stricken woman on the highway. Lisa was running away from two men in masks, who had chased her in the woods, after her car had broken down. Clare drove Lisa to the nigh hospital. After that she phone-called Cameron to report the crime.Soon after that the plot started unveiling itself. Cameron found a whole bunch of evidence in Biffs basement that he used to be involved in something not legal. He found pictures of naked women, together with books on worshipping the devil. Similar causa of satanic literature was found in Jack Kimballs pigeon loft that no one in Clares family had destroyed for years. The investigation spy the existence of a satanic cult in Emmitsboro. The cult consisted of men, who hero-worship the devil. These man gathered late at night in the palm to chant and make human sacrifices. They were also allowed to rape women before they kill them. Biff Stok ey was apparently one of their guys and they had sacrificed him.