In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

You won’t find any fuzzy, half-hearted symbolism in her writing. The author is great at describing the setting, characters and action, and the reader gets fully immersed in the story. The result is a spine-tingling story told in a highly entertaining fashion. These awards came courtesy of her excellent writing, and she is great at manipulating language. This first novel won Julia Spencer-Fleming an Agatha Award, a Dilys Award, and a Macavity award. The police chief is married, which is going to complicate the fledgling relationship between him and the priest. The baby’s mother has been killed, and as the two investigators work the case, they come to rely upon each other’s intuition and intelligence. They discover a world full of trouble, a mutual attraction for one another, and murder. As the priest and the cop start to look for the newborn’s mother, their search leads them to the secrets shadowing Millers Kill, just like the enduring Adirondacks Mountains. This town police chief is also ex military and a skeptical good shepherd of the lost sheep in his hometown. When a newborn is left at her church door, she’s brought together with police boss Russ Van Alstyne. She’s not only a lady, she’s also a hardened ex-army chopper pilot and wise as an owl. Alban’s new priest, barely fits in at the old-fashioned Episcopal parish. The first novel that Julia Spencer-Fleming wrote is called ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, and this is the first novel in this mystery series.

Currently, she resides outside of Portland Maine with her husband and children as well as two dogs. She studied history and acting at Ithaca College, receiving her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Born at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, she spent her childhood constantly moving. She’s the winner of Agatha, Anthony Macavity, Dilys, Barry, Nero Wolfe, and Gumshoe Awards, and an Edgar and Romantic Times RC Award finalist. Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American author of bestselling mysteries, and religious mystery novels set in the Adirondack region of Upstate New York.

In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming