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Days and Hours Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Meissner/ Harvest House Reviewed by Cara PutmanI highly recommend this book for those who like legal mysteries …especially those with a lot of heart.I've often wanted to read one of Susan Meissner's Rachael Flynn mysteries but haven't made the time until this week. That's when I picked up Days & Hours, her latest installment in the Rachael Flynn series. Days & Hours quickly begins with the disappearance of a baby. As part of her job working as a prosecutor for the County's Human Services, Rachael Flynn has to decide whether to return the newborn to his mother. While Marcie may not be the best mother in the world, Rachael believes she is innocent. As her investigation continues, Rachael is more and more confused about who could be behind the taking of the infant. When the baby is taken again, Rachael is determined to find the truth. At all costs. As an attorney, I've worked too many of these cases. They never fail to break your heart. This book does a masterful job of capturing the reality … and heartbreak of these cases. The details of the case and investigation are right on and gripping. This book was one I kept thinking about in between reading it. Also, as a mother with a career, I've had to deal with the sub-issue that runs through the book. The struggle between being an involved mother and having a career. Especially a career that highlights how needy and important young children are. The author handles this topic with grace and a dose of reality. While this book is the third in a series, the author does a nice job of giving us the information we need to know to catch up without slowing down the action. And I loved the host of supporting characters. From her husband to his sidekick to the rest of the ensemble, they all worked well to add to the richness of the book. I highly recommend this book for those who like legal mysteries …especially those with a lot of heart. |
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About Cara Putman whose very own suspense book, Deadly Exposure is soon to be released. View this review and more at: carasmusings.blogspot.com |
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Susan Meissner is an award-winning newspaper columnist, a pastor's wife, and the author of numerous novels, including A Seahorse in the Thames, In All Deep Places, and A Window to the World (named one of the Top Ten Christian Novels of 2005 by Booklist magazine), as well as the three installments of the Rachael Flynn Mystery series. A mother of four, she lives in southwestern California with her husband, Bob.
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Suspense Books By Susan
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Thames Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Meissner / Harvest House Publishers Alexa's older sister, Rebecca, has lived at the Falkman Residential Center ever since a car accident killed her friend and left her mentally compromised. Now, 17 years later, she has vanished. A frantic search ensues--- unearthing disturbing questions. Was Rebecca's life-changing crash really an accident---or something more sinister? 325 pages, softcover from Harvest. |
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Hours Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Meissner / Harvest House Publishers When a missing baby disappears again three months after being found, police sergeant Will Pendleton believes the mother killed the child. But attorney Rachael Flynn isn't sure. When the infant is found alive and alone, questions abound. Who would steal a baby only to abandon it? And will they do it again? 300 pages, softcover from Harvest. |
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Rachael Flynn Mystery Series #2 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Meissner / Harvest House Publishers They're going to find a body at the Prairie Bluffconstruction site. He deserved what he got, but it wasn't supposed to happen. It was an accident. When the body is uncovered, Rachael and Detective Will Pendleton discover that the fifteen year old victim, Randall Buckett, had been buried twentyfive years before. Is the letter write rand the killer the same person? Why would someone speak up now? And why are they telling Rachael? |
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Widows & Orphans, Rachael Flynn Mystery
Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Susan Meissner / Harvest House Publishers When her ultraministryminded brother, Joshua, confesses to murder, lawyer Rachael Flynn begs him to let her represent him, certain that he is innocent. But Joshua refuses her offer of counsel. As Rachael works on the case, she begins to suspect that Josh knows who the real killer is, but she is unable to get him to cooperate with his defense. Why won't he talk to her? What is Josh hiding? |
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Susan Sleeman
Susan Sleeman
is the author of Nipped in the Bud, available May of 2009 from Heartsong Presents: Mysteries, an imprint of Barbour Publishing.
