Review #90
A Reverend Kathryn Koermey Mystery.
After a marriage counseling session, Tracy Newman is walking home when she comes upon a dead body in the drive way of St. Margaret's Church.
Everyone agrees that Mason Blaine had a lot of enemies. But, did one of them hate the chairman of the University’s Spanish Department enough to kill him, move the body to the church drive way and then… stick a knife in his back?
Episcopal Priest, Reverend Kathryn Koerney is no stranger to the sins of man and the murders they commit. Now, working with friend and Harton police chief, Tom Holder, she finds herself hunting a killer through the cloistered world of academia in a small town in New Jersey…an unexpected hotbed of adultery, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.
On top of the murder investigation, Chief Holder’s unstable wife disappears into a stretch limo on Sunday afternoon and isn’t missed until her sister calls on Thursday wanting to know where she is! She’s been calling several times a day since Sunday with no answer! What with the Chief working from 6 AM until Midnight every day since the murder and the fact that he and his wife have separate bedrooms, Holder hasn’t even missed her! Where could she have gone and, more importantly, WHO would have taken her? Bizarre! (Holder and his wife live in the same house, but go their separate ways.)
Turns out Blaine’s murder is only the bait in a carefully disguised trap set for the real victim and Mrs. Holder’s disappearance is a revenge kidnapping. With their personal and professional lives on the line, Kathryn and Tom can only pray they aren’t looking the other way when death strikes again.
I stayed up all night reading this book…just couldn’t put it down!
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