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Death on Sacred Ground Kindle Edition

by Kathie Deviny (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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   Father Robert Vickers, the rector of Seattle's Grace Parish has returned from his honeymoon. Now he is dreaming about an early retirement, encouraged by the skills of the woman who substituted in his absence.

 

  His dreams are dashed by two murders in the nearby homeless jungle. Lester, his formerly homeless employee, may be a suspect. On top of that, his plan to develop part of the church's property is caught in a crossfire of environmental, low income housing, and gentrification advocates. Can he hang on long enough to get through the crisis and insure that the church and community are standing on sacred ground?

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Kathie Deviny turned to writing after a career as social worker and criminal justice manager. As the wife of an Episcopal priest who served a downtown Seattle Parish, she is familiar with the issues raised in her mysteries. Her essays have appeared in Cure Today magazine, Bernie Siegel's Faith Hope and Healing and Episcopal Voice. Kathie and her husband Paul divide their time between the northwest and California.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08KNWY677
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Camel Press; 1st edition (December 8, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1023 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
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    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Kathie Deviny turned to writing mysteries after a career as a social worker and criminal justice manager. Her husband is an Episcopal priest who served one of the oldest churches in Seattle, the setting of her three Grace Church Mysteries. She writes about the crossroads between old and new, rich and poor, high-rise condos and homeless encampments with candor and empathy.

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chuck Brickell
5.0 out of 5 stars You'll Find a New Love For Grace Church
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2020
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Kathie Deviny’s latest offering is a delight. Her writing style and character development has taken the characters and situations around Grace Church to a new level. While solving a mystery social failings and dilemmas are addressed but done so in away that speaks to each reader. I think Ms. Deviny has, with book, proven herself to a writer whose stories and messages will stay with us for a long while.
This is a must read.
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Father Steve
4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition to an excellent series
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2021
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Potent powers collide in the downtown areas of most major cities. The wants and needs of the various groups involved appear irreconcilable. Contestants include street people, gentrifiers with profit motives, law enforcement, small business operators, drug dealers and gang members, environmental activists, homeless people "camping" on public property, and protesters of all flavours. The mission of downtown churches has changed over time as the neighbourhoods in which they sit have changed. Grace Church, Seattle, in one of those churches. Although the characters and setting are fictional, the church bears some resemblance to Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, and the rector to the author's husband, the Rev. Paul M. Collins, quondam rector of Trinity Church. The book is set within the church community which allows for theologizing all of these competing interests. Reading this book is like revisiting an old neighbourhood in that some of the characters carry over from Deviny's first two novels: "Death in the Memorial Garden" and "Death in the Old Rectory." I very much appreciate that the author has not succumbed to portraying any of the players in stereotype: neither the urban poor nor the police are painted with a broad brush but rather as complex people with multiple motives and concerns. Too many threads are left untrimmed for there not to be a fourth novel.
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Christina
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, mystery, and a great way to escape.
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2021
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This was a fun mystery. I had had a stressful week, decided to. Spend a day escaping. This so refreshed me, a wonderful way to de stress and be fabulously entertained. A lot of fun.
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