Murder in Plain Sight

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PERRY, MARTA

MURDER IN PLAIN SIGHT

Did a sweet-faced Amish teenager brutally murder a young woman? To save her career, big-city lawyer Jessica Langdon is determined to defend him -- against the community's bitter and even violent outrage. Yet without an understanding of Amish culture, Jessica must rely on arrogant businessman Trey Morgan, who has ties to the Amish community...and believes in the boy's guilt.

Jessica has threats coming from all sides: a local fanatic, stirred up by the biased publicity of the case; the dead girl's boyfriend; even from the person she's learned to trust the most, Trey Morgan. But just when Jessica fears she's placed her trust in the wrong man, Trey saves her life. And now they must both reach into a dangerous past to protect everyone's future -- including their own.

My Review:

published in 2010

Marta Perry is one of my catch-up authors for this year and I'm surprised that this one slipped past me because I have read the second and third books in The Brotherhood of the Raven series. Though, after reading this one, I know I'm going to be diving into the other books again soon.

Chills and thrills and the sweet, slow burn of both romance and suspense. Very atmospheric and even a little bit eerie at times but Perry doesn't go over the top with frantic scenes of danger and mayhem. Oh, there's danger all right, but she sneaks it up on you..well, on Jessica...in a delightfully shivery fashion. 

Excellent pacing -- she writes as if we have all the time in the world to get to the heart of the mystery. Dangling diverse threads, tossing in red herrings and mixing it all up into an edge-of-your-seat read.

The romance is just as beguiling, with a horrendous meet-cute that makes this a bit of an enemies to more love story. Tumultuous definitely sums it up -- in the most thrilling kind of way. I didn't even know if l liked Trey in the beginning. He does grow on you, though, for all his bossy, take-charge blundering. :-)

Love the way the author weaves in Amish fact and fiction as Jessica is introduced to the community for the very first time. Some lovely threads of faith, forgiveness and prayer enrich the story through the lives of some secondary characters. So, while not quite a Christian fiction selection, it definitely has faith elements.

I listened to the audible edition narrated by Therese Plummer. Squuueeealll -- I love the way she fine tunes a story, reading as if she relishes the adventure right along with me.

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This giveaway is for an ebook copy.

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