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Title: The Tentmaker by Michelle Blake ISBN: 0-425-17668-1 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Episcopalian Rates Rev. Lily Connor
Comment: From the standpoint of an "insider," this was a fine book. I have known many "tentmaker" priests and deacons and have been an Episcopalian for 30 years. The mystery is exciting, but equally as good is the internal politics of the parish and diocese, and the wrestlings with faith of all the characters.
Rating: 5
Summary: A page turner!
Comment: This is a perfect book for those of you who think Priests and "churched" persons are superhuman! Blake not only presents a well-developed mystery with a surprising ending she also manages to shatter the image of the stereotypical rector with her character "tentmaker" Lily Connor! Pick up this book you won't be sorry!
Rating: 4
Summary: AN ADMIRABLE DEBUT
Comment: She's willful; she's prayerful. She is by turns disdainful, compassionate, frightened, or resolute. She is Lily Connor, crime solver [come] Episcopal priest, introduced in poet Michelle Blake's assured and satisfying debut novel, The Tentmaker. As we learn a tentmaker is "an ordained priest who works at a trade outside the church, sometimes serving as interim priest for parishes in search of full-time rectors." That is precisely what native Texan Lily is called to do. Although, 36-year-old Lily in her jeans, boots and clerical collar does seem an incongruity at St. Mary of the Garden, a decidedly upscale Boston church. Upon arrival she finds a cool welcome, and a wounded parish. So, she prays: "She prayed for compassion, she prayed for insight, and she prayed, if it was anywhere in the scope of God's will, for release from this job, which was driving her crazy." Initially, Lily attributes the parishioners' indifference to their grief over the sudden death of their rector, a beloved figure who had served the church for many years. Deeming her position "babysitting rich people, " she shares her reservations with Charlie Cooper, a friend from her seminary days, and now an Episcopal monk. He had encouraged her to take the position and now counsels her to be patient. Before long a series of unexplainable events take place which lead her to believe that there is something more to deal with at St. Mary of the Garden than aloofness and pain. With the blessing of an ally in the church, Bishop Spencer, Lily begins to look into the decidedly dark doings at the church. When a prominent family accuses the late rector of seducing their young son, Roy, the water is muddied even further. Lily is drawn into a vortex of ignominious happenings when she discovers an almost fatal accident in the church basement, then is confounded by the sudden appearance then disappearance and near death of Roy. In a stunning denouement she finds herself alone with a murderer who despises her. Yet, it is during this confrontation that she comes to realize in part what her priestly vows should mean. Lily's search for answers has been as much for herself as for the parish, as she struggles with her own crisis of faith. Ms. Blake has pulled off quite a coup with The Tentmaker and her creation of a protagonist who is both human and humane, as Lily gives vent to emotions, fights temptation, and bridles at what she considers to be the exclusionary practices of the Episcopal church. Thus readers are not only entertained but enlightened, and left eagerly waiting for the next Lily Connor adventure. - Gail Cooke
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Title: Earth Has No Sorrow by Michelle Blake ISBN: 0425185230 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Book of Light by Michelle Blake ISBN: 0399150463 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Fountain Filled with Blood: A Mystery by Julia Spencer-Fleming ISBN: 0312304102 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming ISBN: 0312986769 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Crooked Heart by CRISTINA SUMNERS ISBN: 0553584308 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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