Want to get away: pick up a mystery novel
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Try these inspirational mysteries for some great springtime reading.

▪ Little White Lies by Ron and Janey Benrey The sudden suspicious drowning death of her business partner forces Pippa Hunnechurch to re-examine her life, and the circumstances of the "accident."

▪ Private Justice by Terri Blackstock A serial killer begins to stalk the town of Newport, Louisiana, and when it seems like Mark Branning's wife is next on the hit list, he is determined to protect her, but first the two must move to save their dying marriage.

▪ A Table by the Window by Lawana Blackwell After a tumultuous childhood, Carley has fashioned an orderly life for herself in San Francisco. Unexpected news arrives of a large inheritance and a house in Tallulah, Mississippi. But Carley finds more than she bargained for in Tallulah: along with faith, self-worth, romance: a murder mystery that threatens her newfound happiness.

▪ Crown of Thorns by Sigmund Brouwer Nick Barrett is in Charleston, awaiting news of his inheritance, when he agrees to investigate the ownership of a famous painting. He finds himself reluctantly drawn into the lives of a spunky, streetwise 11-year old girl and a woman who is trying to rescue her sick child from the ruthless leader of a cult.

▪ A Sister's Secret by Wanda Brunstetter After finishing her "running around years," Grace Hostettler returns to Holmes County and joins the Amish church, but when an English man who knows too much about her past appears, his interest in Grace threatens to destroy more than one life.

▪ Drummer in the Dark by T. Davis Bunn While investigating a smear campaign against Congressman Graham Hutchings, Orlando P.I. Jackie Havilland and businessman-turned-congressman Wynn Bryant stumble upon a dangerous conspiracy aimed at reshaping the world economy.

▪ Eyes of Elisha by Brandilyn Collins Gifted with "the sight," Chelsea Adams' marriage and faith are tested after she witnesses a murder through the eyes of the victim and attempts to convince the police of what she saw, making her the killer's next target.

▪ Obsessed by Ted Dekker Stephen Friedman is making a good living in good times. He's just an ordinary guy. Or so he thinks. But one day an extraordinary piece of information tells him differently. It's a clue from the grave of a Holocaust survivor. A clue that makes him heir to an incredible fortune...a clue that only he and one other man can possibly understand. That man is Roth Braun, a serial killer who has been waiting for Stephen for thirty years. Roth was stopped once before. This time nothing will get in his way.

▪ The Prodigy: a Novel of Suspense by Alton Gansky Toby, born to an unwed teenager in North Carolina, demonstrates miraculous powers to heal people and control weather at an early age, but when a radio talk-show host profiles Toby as a Messiah figure, events spin out of control.

▪ Margaret’s Peace by Linda Hall When Margaret Collinwood inherits her childhood home in Maine, she returns to the house hoping to find peace, but instead she is confronted with ghosts from her past and the truth about long-buried family secrets.

▪ The Healer by Dee Henderson Trauam psychologist Rachel O'Malley must work against her fatigue and grief as she helps refugees after an Illinois flood and copes with her sister Jennifer's cancer while building a relationship with Captain Cole Parker.

▪ Dark River Legacy by B.J. Hoff Blind Christian songwriter Daniel Kaine and his wife, Jennifer have arrived in Derry Ridge, Kentucky, to participate in the Heritage Arts Festival. Their host, Mitch Donovan, has personal problems to deal with along with his professional duties, i.e., his good friend, a middle-aged amnesia victim named Abby, has become the victim of a mysterious stalker.

▪ Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne by Tim LaHaye Twenty-five days into the Great Tribulation, the horror and suffering in the world is intensifying. The Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia – now the complete embodiment of evil – is preparing to desecrate the holy temple in Jerusalem by entering and declaring himself God.

▪ North of Tomorrow by Cindy McCormick Martinusen History Network researcher Amanda Rivans is hot on the trail of the lost Empress Brooch, a priceless piece of jewelry that is linked to her past. The brooch, which disappeared during the Nazi era, cost many people their lives. Intertwined with this is her quest for information about her grandparents, whom she believes to be Holocaust survivors, but who in a plot twist were in fact members of the Nazi Party.

▪ Invisible by Lorena McCourtney She's not your average crime fighter! Meet Ivy Malone, an inconspicuous older woman who has a mutant curiosity gene that often lands her in trouble. Unlike most women her age, she snoops and pries her gray-haired self into one hilarious escapade after another. So when vandals romp through the local cemetery, Ivy can't help but put her snooping eyes to work as she launches her own unofficial investigation. Find more mysteries online at www.garnernews.net. ▪ A Dangerous Silence by Catherine Palmer Dr. Marah Morgan returns to Cowley County, Kansas, and discovers alarming details about her mother's death more than 25 years earlier, making her wonder if reconciliation with her father is possible.

▪ Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti In the tiny farming community of Bacon's Corner, an attempted murder, a case of mistaken identity, and a lawsuit against a struggling Christian school all lead Sally Beth Roe to flee for her life.

▪ The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West The newly elected Pope from Russia attempts to avert a conflict between Russia and Red China by declaring that the Church's total wealth should alleviate the world's starving and challenges other institutions to do the same.

In Mystery Fiction ▪ Crooked Heart by Cristina Sumners When a housewife in the affluent community of Harton, New Jersey, is reported missing by her husband and the only witness is a feverish child, police chief Tom Holder enlists the aid of the Reverend Kathryn Koerney to help him solve the case.

▪ The Subtle Serpent by Peter Tremayne In seventh-century Ireland, Sister Fidelma is sent to a remote abbey to investigate a murder in which the victim was found clutching both a cross and a pagan death symbol.

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