Widows and Orphans

Harvest House, 2006

Winner: 2nd place American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year – Suspense category

Widows and Orphans kicks off a legal mystery series featuring wife, mother and lawyer Rachael Flynn. In this story, Rachael’s ultra–ministry–minded brother, Joshua, confesses to murder. Rachael begs him to let her represent him, certain that he is innocent. But Joshua refuses her offer of counsel. As Rachael works on the case on her own, she begins to suspect that Josh knows who the real killer is, but she is unable to get him to cooperate with his defense. Why won’t he talk to her? What is Josh hiding? When Rachael asks her husband, Trace, and his fellow artists to sketch the scene of the crime as they see it, a new piece of the puzzle becomes apparent - a piece that ultimately leads to the truth that has eluded the police- and Rachael.