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Blog - The Water Diaries
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Black Ice Lenore Featherjohn found the girl, frozen against a snow bank behind Lenore’s bed-and-breakfast. Some said she was a ghost, others said an angel. Lenore knows better. Fearing that the police might look to her sons as murderers, she hires Jake Rikker and his crusty business partner May, to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding her undesirable discovery. Their search leads them not to the strange girl—or to Earth’s final days, as many in the town suspect—but to Amy McLaren, the wife of the Stone Church’s minister. As Jake and May get closer to the truth, the tension between Lenore and Amy rises, forcing each woman to face the secrets they’ve hidden far too long. Shortlisted for Suspense Book of the Year '08 by the American Christian Fiction Writers. Download the recipe for Lenore's Cinnamon Swirls Read what others are saying: |
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PI Jake Rikker has been retained to find a stalker, a challenge that could help redeem his life-if he doesn't lose it first. A private investigator, kayak adventurer, and whale watching tour guide who specializes in salvage operations based out of an old, purple church, Jake is caught off guard by the request of his new client. Up-and-coming jewelry designer Elise St. Dennis wants him to find not a valuable object, but the menacing ex-con who has traced her to the small town of Fog Point. Dark Water received The Word Guild award for best Christian mystery in Canada. To read the prologue, click here. Reviews: The Toronto Globe and Mail (it's the fourth review in the list) Faith in Fiction Discussion board |
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Chat Room In Chat Room the dynamic sequel to Steal Away, private investigator Teri Blake-Addison is hired by a young woman to find the woman's best friend who ran off with a man she met on the internet and hasn't been heard from since. The clues lead her from Maine to Texas to New Mexico and back again. While on her home front, she and husband Jack are packing to move into their newly built home which is anything but ready on time. What people are saying: Click here to read a recent review (Jan '07)
Click here to read the Prologue Chat Room was a finalist in The Word Guild Competition for best Canadian Christian mystery. Chat Room is also available in hard cover, large print. |
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Steal Away Steal Away is my first book featuring private investigator Teri Blake-Addison whose specialty is finding people. But Teri often finds a lot more than her clients want! In Steal Away Teri is hired by a well know minister to find out what really happened to his wife. Five years previously she was in a sailboat accident with two friends. Their bodies were found. Hers wasn't. The minister wants to get married again yet is troubled by "ghosts of the past" and he wants to put to rest once and for all what happened to his wife. What people are saying: Steal Away was a Christy Award finalist, a Daphne finalist and was given top honors by The Word Guild. As well, it was the 2004 Beacon Award winner for Best Inspirational Novel, the Winter Rose Award Winner for Best Inspirational Novel, and it was given the Award of Excellence from the Colorado Romance Writers. Click here to read the Prologue Steal Away is also available in hardcover large print. |
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Sadie's Song This book opens with the disappearance of nine-year-old Ally Buckley, a circumstance which bears too much resemblance to another recent and chilling event. Fear spreads throughout the New England fishing village of Coffins Reach and the local church that Sadie and her family attend. When Sadie discovers a drawing done by Ally among her abusive husband's possessions, she suspects danger may be closer to home than she'd ever known possible. Sadie's Song was a Christy Award finalist and was nominated for a Bloody Dagger Award. Click here to read Chapter One What people are saying:
The cover photo on Sadie's
Song is of the Pemaquid
Point Lighthouse in Maine.
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Katheryn's Secret This novel interweaves elements of mystery and suspense with a message of hope. The novel brings healing to those wounded by legalism in the church. Mystery writer Sharon Colebrook finds herself the unexpected recipient of her deceased Aunt Katie's papers, and hopes to learn about a murder Katie had hinted at years before. But as Sharon and her husband Jeff begin to investigate, the carefully kept facade of her strict religious family begins to crumble. Secrets, long buried, begin to surface, and only God's grace can put this family back together again. Katheryn's Secret was judged Best Canadian Christian Novel in the Write Canada Competition sponsored by The Word Guild. Click here to read Chapter One Katheryn's Secret has been translated into Dutch. What people are saying: |
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Island of Refuge The lives of five homeless people living in a church on an island are shattered when one of them is murdered. Meanwhile, two states over, another investigation is begun, a seeming unrelated one. But what is discovered shatters the island dwellers to the very core and intertwines the lives of the island dwellers as they seek to make peace with themselves, their lives, and God. Island of Refuge was given an Honorable Mention in the Write Canada competition sponsored by The Word Guild. Click here to read Chapter One |
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Margaret's Peace When Margaret Collinwood inherits her childhood home in Coffins Reach, Maine, she returns to the seafront house hoping to rest, paint, and to find the peace she has lost after the death of her daughter and the subsequent breakup of her marriage. But Margaret's return to her family home forces her to face difficult childhood memories surrounding the fatal accident that took the life of her sister twenty-five years earlier. As Margaret begins to examine the past, strange things start happening in the present. As she moves between her childhood memories, the ghostly legends surrounding her historic house, and the trendy cafes of the Maine coast, Margaret uncovers the truth hidden in long-buried family secrets. And in facing the past she finds new hope for her future. Margaret's Peace received an Honorable Mention for the Richards Prize in fiction, sponsored by the New Brunswick Writers Federation Click here to read Chapter One |
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The Canadian Mountie Series August Gamble is the first in a series about a RCMP officer and his family. Corporal Roger Sheppard investigates the death of a young drug dealer. August Gamble was named Best Novel in the Write Canada competition sponsored by the Word Guild. It was also named a C.S. Lewis Noteworthy Book. August Gamble has also been translated into Dutch. Click here to read chapter one November Veil is the second in the series and continues the story when Sheppard investigates the murder of a prominent televangelist. Click here to read chapter one April Operation is the third in the series. In this book, Sergeant Sheppard is promoted and transferred to a small town in New Brunswick and his first case is investigating the murder of an abortion doctor. April Operation was awarded Best Novel in the Write Canada competition sponsored by The Word Guild. Click here to read chapter one |
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The Josiah Files is now out of print, but some used copies may be available here and there at used bookstores. Any of these books can be purchased at or ordered from your favorite local bookstore or online bookstore.
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