The Rector
by Michael Hicks ThompsonSeries: The Solo seriesSuspense Mystery Christian Fiction Book Overview
Combine a suspenseful murder mystery with theology (the study and explanation of religious faith, practice, and experience) and you have The Rector -- with an allegory of Christ's ministry. Martha McRae is a widow living in a small Mississippi Delta town in the 1950s. She obsessed with the sudden death of her Episcopal Church's young rector. A murderer will go free if she doesn't investigate. But Martha is torn. If she pursues the suspect, her Bible study friend's ugly secret could be revealed. It would be devastating, and life-changing. When the new rector arrives, she encounters a new puzzle to solve -- one that takes her into Parchman Penitentiary where she comes face-to-face with evil.