FIRST MURDER IN ADVENT by Sharon Wildwind

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An Elizabeth Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen Mystery

The protagonists,  Elizabeth Pepper-hawk and Avivah Rosen, are women who have served in Vietnam, as Wildwind herself did. In Wildwind’s second mystery, set in 1972, Army nurse Pepperhawk is between assignments when she receives a call from Benny Kirkpatrick, ex-Special Forces first sergeant.

Their friend Avivah is in trouble, and with Benny and Avivah’s friend, has sought refuge in a convent in the mountains of North Carolina. When Pepper goes to help, she finds mil-itary intelligence officer Darby Baxter, her on-again, off-again love interest, with three other men.

What follows are days without electricity in a mostly empty convent, in a snowstorm. Avivah, Pepper, Darby and Benny, along with a few nuns and some members of a paramilitary think tank, struggle to survive the cold amidst murder, secret passageways and lost wills–delicious reading with tangling sub-plots. Too bad this series didn’t get more attention as the stories are quite good.

04/14 Jack Quick

FIRST MURDER IN ADVENT by Sharon Wildwind. Five Star (ME) (October 2006). ISBN 978-1594145278. 323p.

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