In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

As the days dwindle down and the attraction between the avowed priest and the married police chief grows, Clare will need all her faith, tenacity, and courage to stand fast against a killer’s icy heart. When a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs and a young mother is brutally murdered, Clare has to pick her way through the secrets and silence that shadow that town like the ever-present Adirondack mountains.

The last thing she needs is trouble, but that is exactly what she finds. However, her blunt manner, honed by years as an army pilot, is meeting with a chilly reception from some members of her congregation and Chief of Police Russ Van Alystyne, in particular, doesn’t know what to make of her, or how to address “a lady priest” for that matter. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. “It’s a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. If you haven’t read that award-winning book, you missed one of the outstanding debuts in the last twenty years.

It was Julia Spencer-Fleming’s debut mystery in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series that was actually the inspiration for this February feature. OL5730345W Page_number_confidence 95.62 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210729122813 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1057 Scandate 20210727143511 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780312940553 Tts_version 4.Julia Spencer-Fleming at The Poisoned Pen Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:00:53 Boxid IA40226723 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming