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    The Psalmist
    The Psalmist
    The Psalmist
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Psalmist

    Written by James Lilliefors

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

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    Luke Bowers is in the good and evil business.

    On a cold, late-winter morning in the Chesapeake Bay community of Tidewater County, Bowers discovers a dead woman seated in a pew at the church where he is pastor-her eyes open, her hands clasped as if in prayer.

    Nothing at the scene identifies the woman or explains why she was at the church. And when state police homicide investigator Amy Hunter comes to town to head up the case, not everyone is pleased that a young, female outsider has the job. The only lead in solving the crime is a sequence of numbers that has been carved into the victim's right hand, which Bowers suspects may be a reference to the Book of Psalms.

    With Bowers's help, Hunter follows a chain of seemingly innocuous clues to track down a deranged serial killer and unravel an elusive criminal enterprise that is more powerful than they ever could have imagined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 12, 2016
    ISBN9781515975571
    Author

    James Lilliefors

    James Lilliefors is the author of the geopolitical thriller novels The Leviathan Effect and Viral. A journalist and novelist who grew up near Washington, D.C., Lilliefors is also the author of three nonfiction books. The Psalmist and The Tempest are the first two books in the Luke Bowers and Amy Hunter series.

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    • 2/5
      Weak with No Ending

      If this the introduction to a series, I would caution you to skip the entire series. Unfortunately, I have to agree with many previous reviewers, I found the book to be tedious, dull, and worst of all to have no ending. What? What a rotten subterfuge to pull on your readers! Plus this detective does no detecting! She complains a lot and reiterates and speaks to a very dull Pastor who seems to have come to be a Pastor by a throw at a dart board. The characters are two dimensional and lifeless save for the four-legged one. Really not worth the effort to plow through- especially when you are not even rewarded for your effort with a satisfactory end to the most basic answer to the most basic question...do they get the bad guy? Skip it.
    • 5/5
      Luke and Amy are very different but they work together so well. These two are the most enjoyable characters! Pastor Luke finds a dead body in his church and the state investigator assigned to the case is Amy Hunter. The local law enforcement are not happy the investigator is a woman and they do give Amy a hard time. Luke is helpful and together they unearth something really BIG! A great mystery with the right amount of suspense, written well, fast paced. This is an author I'm going to keep reading!I received an ecopy of this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.