Each Friday, Barnes & Noble offers free Book Book Friday. Here are this week’s selections.
Sacred Treason
1563: Anyone could be a suspect; any Catholic could be accused of plotting against the throne. Clarenceux keeps his head down and his religion quiet. But when a friend desperately pleads with Clarenceux to hide a manuscript for him, he is drawn into a web of treachery and conspiracy he may never untangle. Is there no refuge if your faith is your enemy?
Calling of Emily Evans
When Emily arrives at her new assignment, she is disappointed to find the church building in disrepair. After many days of hard work fixing it up, she announces her first service and is once again disappointed, this time in the size of her congregation. Is her faith strong enough to stand against the local doubters and myriad challenges that will test her calling?
A young woman questions her ability to carry out God’s call to a country parish in the prairie settlements.
Murder Passes the Buck
After her neighbor is shot and killed in his hunting blind, 66-year-old Gertie Johnson will do whatever it takes to solve the case in book 1 of this award-winning mystery series.
I had an advanced reader copy of Sacred Treason that I reviewed for FreshFiction. It’s really good. It’s a mystery and a puzzle, set in the time of Queen Elizabeth.