Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery, Book 8 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FJCO1B8 | Format: PDF
Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery, Book 8 Description
Now a New York Times best-selling author, Julia Spencer-Fleming rises to the accolade with a powerful, and emotionally charged novel fans have been yearning for.
On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping - which is the very last thing Russ needs.... Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood. And his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: A week in an unelectrified ice-fishing cabin. The vestry of St. Alban's Church has called for the bishop to investigate Clare's "unpriestly" pregnancy. She has one week to find out if she will be scolded, censured, or suspended from her duties.
Officer Hadley Knox is having a miserable January as well. Her on-again-off-again lover, Kevin Flynn, has seven days to weigh an offer from the Syracuse Police Department that might take him half a state away. As the days and hours tick by, Russ and Clare fight personal and professional battles they've never encountered.
In the course of this one tumultuous week the lives of the Millers-Kill residents listeners have come to love and cherish change forever. Listeners have waited years for Through The Evil Days, and Julia Spencer-Fleming delivers with the exquisite skill and craftsmanship that have made her such a success.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 14 hours and 18 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: November 5, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FJCO1B8
Millers Kill is a small town in upstate New York, and is the kind of town where tax revenues and the population are decreasing, but crime is not. It is also the type of small town where neighbors know each other and there are few secrets, including those of Clare Fergusson, an Episcopal priest and her husband Russ van Alstyne, the Police Chief. Recently married, the couple is expecting a baby that they had not planned for and was conceived before their wedding. Struggling to adapt to the new changes in their lives, the couple is woken late one night when Russ is called out to a house fire with presumed fatalities. Claire is asked to come along to help counsel the volunteer fire fighters, little knowing that this house fire would set off a deadly chain of crime.
Looking forward to their vacation in a remote cabin, Claire and Russ leave town, and offer to drop off a young woman at her uncle's cabin on their way. Shortly after they arrive at their own rented house, a fierce winter storm rains ice and then snow on them, leaving Claire and Russ isolated and with almost no way to contact the outside world. Back in Millers Kill, the fire has turned into a double homicide and the kidnapping of a young girl. The small police department stretches their resources to hunt down what turns out to be a ring of methadone dealers, undercover drug agents, and layers of falsehoods, all while the ice storm makes the roads almost impassable and takes out both electrical power and communications.
Through the Evil Days deftly mixes the personal lives of the characters with a series of brutal crimes. Russ and Claire are forced to face their insecurities in themselves and their marriage, and their fears of the future.
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