I’ve found a new favorite
author. Her name is Kathy Herman, she
has authored twenty novels, and her writing will grab you from page one, and
will not turn you loose until you arrive at the last page, emotionally wrung
out, wondering “What just happened?”
It’s not just the
fully-developed, complex characters.
It’s more than scenes so detailed you feel as if you were actually
there. There’s a theme of God’s grace,
forgiveness, and mercy, as well as his righteousness, holiness and
justice. And Kathy doesn’t preach, so
much as she speaks the truth . . . a truth that she has experienced for
herself, and so she can faithfully express it through the pages of her novels.
12-year old Jesse Cummings
has just witnessed a murder. He just
doesn’t know it yet.
50-something year old Liam Berne has just committed a murder. He just doesn’t see it that way.
To Liam’s way of thinking,
his mother – diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease – would never have
wanted to live as she is living. And she
certainly wouldn’t have wanted her children to spend every last dime of the
investment’s she and her husband had so carefully built up over the years. So Liam is simply killing two birds with one
stone . . . in a manner of speaking.
Colleen, Liam’s sister, isn’t
convinced that her mother, Dixie , simply
wandered off, fell into the river, and subsequently drowned. She’s got questions, and she’s determined to
find answers – even if it means spending her share of the inheritance in order
to do so.
As details emerge, Jesse
finds himself having to grow up a lot sooner than he anticipated. His faith will be tested almost to the
breaking point, and this fictional character will learn a lot more about
trusting God and the nature of forgiveness than many of us will in a lifetime.
I received this book in
exchange for my honest review.
5 stars for a work of fiction
that unashamedly tells the truth.
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