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Shadows at the Window Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Linda hall / Steeple Hill Reviewed by Susan SleemanLinda Hall has done it again - wrapped interesting, real, and flawed characters with a compelling mystery and a refreshing romance.When Shadows at the Window opens, Lilly Johnson seems to have it all. She's content in her job at a music store, enjoys teaching music lessons, is at home singing in the worship band at church, and is thrilled over a pending engagement to youth minister, Greg Whitten. Yes, everything in her current world is swimming along nicely. It's Lilly's past that threatens to pull her under and drown out her present. Lilly is horribly ashamed of the things she's done in the past and was happy to leave that life behind. A life she thought would remain hidden. But Lilly is in for a shocking surprise as her past rises up and threatens to smother the good with a blanket of ugliness. Not only smother Lilly, but take Greg down with her. Greg is clueless about Lilly's secrets and simply wants to marry her. When emails begin arriving with incriminating pictures of Lilly, her world collapses. She must find out who is sending these emails and discover what they hope to gain from exposing her. And if it is possible, reclaim the world she lived in before it was rocked to the core. Shadows at the Window is an aptly titled story of past failures and future consequences. The subject of this story could be dark and heavy but Hall does a wonderful job of not letting that happen. She reminds us that our past is our past and once we accept Jesus as our savior, we are new creatures in Christ and the past cannot harm us. That no matter what we've done, we have a fresh beginning with God. I've always thought one of Hall's many writing strengths lies in her characters. She pens real people with struggles you and I might find in life. She tosses these characters into mysteries so compelling that you want to keep reading until the very end. Shadows at the Window is no exception to this and is a race to the end read. I urge you to buy your copy today so you too can see why Linda Hall is and remains one of my favorite authors. |
Award winning author, Linda Hall enjoys a life filled with words and mystery-of the fictional sort, that is. She is the author of twelve novels, including the best-selling Margaret's Peace and the acclaimed and Christy nominated Sadie's Song. Read more about Linda Hall
Suspense Books By Linda
| Black Ice Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Linda Hall / Random House, Inc 
Horrified at the discovery of a frozen body behind her Canadian bed-and-breakfast, Lenore Featherjohn hires detective Jake Rikker and his crusty partner. When the investigation leads to a local minister's wife, she and Lenore are forced to face long-hidden secrets---but who did kill the strange teenaged girl? 352 pages, softcover from Waterbrook. |
| Dark Water, Fog Point
Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Linda Hall / Random House, Inc
Private investigator Jake Rikker is caught off guard by his new client's request. Afraid to consult the police, jewelry designer Elise St. Dennis hires him to find an ex-con who has traced her to Fog Point. Jake and his business partner, May---a crusty widow---pursue the stalker. As they close in on their prey, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the hunters are now the hunted! 352 pages, softcover from Waterbrook. |
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The Window Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Linda Hall / Steeple Hill Books
Lilly Johnson had done everything she could to put her dangerous rock-star past behind her. Now living in a new town, she was a law-abiding churchgoer engaged to youth minister Greg Whitten. But when pictures from her past reemerged, with ugly threats attached, it put more than just her happily-ever-after in danger. |
| Shadows In
The Mirror Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Linda Hall / Steeple Hill Books 
''Never go back to Burlington!" Those were the dying words of the secretive aunt who'd raised orphaned Marylee Simson. Yet to discover who she was, Marylee had to go back, sure the Lord would look out for her. But learning anything about her past was proving impossible. Why were there no records of the accident that claimed her parents' lives? No records of her parents, period? And who was trying to stop her from finding out? Someone whose threats were escalating. Someone close to her, such as Evan Baxter, the handsome photographer she'd entrusted with the one clue she had. |
| Steal Away, Teri
Blake-Addison Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Linda Hall / Multnomah Publishers Inc.
Follow the suspenseful exploits of Linda Hall's private eye in the Teri Blake-Addison Mysteries. Celebrated minister Dr. Carl Houseman hires Teri to discover what really happened to his wife. Did she Steal Away and drown in Maine's icy Atlantic waters? When murder rocks the island where Ellen Houseman's sailboat washed ashore, Teri realizes that there's more at stake than the puzzling life of an unhappy woman. 290 pages, softcover, |
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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.
