One Was a Soldier

from eawsmom

I received an advance reader's copy of this book. I have been looking forward to this book and after reading it, I believe it was well worth the wait. Reverend Clare Fergusson returns from her tour of duty as a helicopter in Iraq and resumes her relationship with Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne. Cl...

from romsfuulynn

I'm only reviewing this book (the 7th), and only to say that I bought the first and second of the series because of a cheap promo price and then promptly raced through all the rest without coming up for air. Amazingly good books. I am satisfied with how the relationship between the two main chara...

from cvjacobs

Julia Spencer-Fleming's One Was a Soldier is a complex story that includes romance, mystery, complicated characters and a realistic portrayal of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in several soldiers returning from Iraq. This is the seventh in a series that features Reverend Clare Fergusson an...

from sleahey

This is a most satisfying continuation of the Ferguson/Van Alstyne relationship, combined with a page turner of of murder mystery. The veterans' support group offers an effective vehicle for making secondary characters more complex than usual. It's literary torture to have to wait a whole year fo...

from bamckay

This is the first book of Julia Spencer-Fleming's that I have read and that might have contributed to my problem of not being able to keep some of the characters straight. I did enjoy the book and plan to reserve the rest of the series from the library.