Through the Evil Days : A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery

from brenzi

You've got to hand it to Julia Spencer-Fleming. She has ideas about the timing of her series that fly in the face of common, accepted practice among series writers. Bottom line---it has taken 30 months, almost three years, since her last book. This is fairly unprecedented among mystery series wri...

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Chief of Police, Russ Van Alstyne, and Episcopal priest, Clare Fergusson, are getting ready to leave for their belated honeymoon at a remote ice fishing cabin. Before they leave they are both called out to the scene of a raging fire; Russ because he's police chief and Clare to counsel the firefig...

from tututhefirst

Back in March 2011, I finished One was a Soldier - the book preceding this one in the series about Clare Ferguson and Russ Van Alstyne. After reading the closing line, I threw the previous book across the room yelling - "NO....you can't leave us hanging like this!" 30 plus months later, we are fi...

from cathyskye

Julia Spencer-Fleming is one of the very best at portraying the nuanced personal relationships of her characters. The marvel is that she does this and creates a fantastic mystery, too. Periodic chapters from little Mikayla's point of view definitely keep the sense of urgency at the boil as do iso...

from bookswoman

This series keeps getting better. Spencer-Fleming writes a powerful story and also weaves in an intriguing mystery. Claire and Russ are off on their honeymoon, in January, to a remote fishing cabin with no electricity. What starts out as a quiet week soon turns into a fight for survival. Weather ...