47. I shall Not Want

By Julia Spencer-Fleming
Rated 5 Stars
From Jani

I liked this book way more than I thought I was going to. I was really beautifully written an full of some terrific secondary characters. For one thing, while it was as much a romance as it was a mystery it wasn't full of explicit sex. While I don't consider myself a prude I really do not like it when characters fall into bed willy-nilly, often on short acquaintance with each other. I like books where relationships are based on more than lust and where sex is a culmination of the relationship. This book is full of relationships.

Since this is the sixth book in the series and the first one for me I feel like I am missing out on a lot of the back story so I have ordered the first book from the library and I will see if I want to read the whole series. I suspect that I will and I know for sure that I will be in line for book seven when it comes out.

From Julia Spencer-Fleming's Website:

Millers Kill reaches the boiling point in this white-hot novel of love and suspense

People die. Marriages fail. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, New York, however, life does not stop for heartbreak. A brand-new officer in the police department, a breaking-and-entering, and trouble within his own family keep Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne busy enough to ignore the pain of losing his wife---and the woman he loves.

At St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, the Reverend Clare Fergusson is trying to keep her vestry, her bishop, and her National Guard superiors happy---all the while denying her own wounded soul.

When a Mexican farmhand stumbles over a Latino man killed with a single shot to the back of his head, Clare is sucked into the investigation through her involvement in the migrant community. The discovery of two more bodies executed in the same way ignites fears that a serial killer is loose in the close-knit community. While the sorrowful spring turns into a scorching summer, Russ is plagued by media hysteria, conflict within his department, and a series of baffling assaults.

As the violence strikes closer and closer to home, an untried officer is tested, a wary migrant worker is tempted, and two would-be lovers who thought they had lost everything must find a way to trust each other again---before it becomes forever, fatally, too late.

Julia Spencer-Fleming shows you can escape danger---but not desire---in her most suspenseful, passionate novel yet.