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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 5
All Mortal Flesh
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in the novel Julia Spencer-Fleming’s readers have been clamoring for. Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne’s first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in the hospital emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn infant had been abandoned on the town’s Episcopal church steps. If Russ had known that the church had a new priest, he... (more)
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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 6
I Shall Not Want
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
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 doesn’t 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... (more)
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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 2
A Fountain Filled With Blood
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Nestled in the heart of the Adirondacks, Miller's Kill, New York is about as safe as it gets. That's why Episcopal minister Clare Fergusson is shocked when the July Fourth weekend brings a rash of vicious assaults to the scenic town. Even Clare's good friend, police chief Russ Van Alstyne, is shaken by the brutality of the crimes-especially when it appears that the victims were chosen because they are gay. But... (more)
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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 7
One Was a Soldier
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
At the Millers Kill Community Center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she’s using alcohol to wipe out. Dr. George Stillman is denying that the head wound he received has left him with something worse than simple migraines. Officer Eric McCrea is battling to keep his constant rage from affecting his life as... (more)
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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 4
To Darkness And to Death
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Millicent van der Hoeven has decided to sell her family’s Adirondack estate to a nature conservancy. But on the day of the land transfer, her brother frantically calls the police. Millie has disappeared in the cold November forest… Reverend Clare Fergusson gets an early morning phone call to join the Millers Kill search and rescue operation. As a former Army helicopter pilot trained in survival skills, she can’t... (more)
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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 3
Out Of The Deep I Cry
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no one ever saw Jonathan Ketchem again... Now decades later, someone else is missing in Miller's Kill, NY. This time it's the physician of the clinic that bears the Ketchem name. Suspicion falls on a... (more)
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Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series: Book 1
In the Bleak Midwinter
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Heavy Snow...Icy Desires...Cold-Blooded Murder Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good... (more)
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Simon Serrailler: Book 3
The Risk of Darkness
by Susan Hill
Simon Serrailler in love at last — in the third crime novel about Susan Hill’s fictional Detective Chief Inspector. Simon Serrailler’s story began in The Various Haunts of Men (about a serial killer against a background of alternative medicine) and continued with The Pure in Heart (about a kidnapped schoolboy against a background of the “innocence” of children and the handicapped). Susan Hill is not afraid to... (more)
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The First Gentleman: The Role of the Female Pastor's Husband
by Dr. Jacqueline Tuggle Taylor
"Female leadership has been a topic of debate for centuries between theologians and laity, Christians and non-Christians, as well as men and women. This study will present a theological analysis of the debate concerning male and female roles in leadership positions and ministry. An analysis of the role of the female pastor’s spouse, the effects of sexism in religion, and how it has influenced the ecclesiology of... (more)