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Publisher: Fleming H Revell
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Release
Date: September 2004 |
ISBN: 0800759532
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Format
Reviewed: Trade Paperback |
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Genre:
Mystery/Inspirational [Contemporary, Missouri] |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer: Rachel A Hyde,
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Invisible
An Ivy
Malone Mystery, No. 1
By Lorena McCourtney
Ivy Malone
is, in her own words, a LOL (Little Old Lady). As she ages she finds
that to many people she is almost invisible - but this is a trait
that can have its uses if you are as curious as Ivy is. When vandals
repeatedly wreck the stones in her local cemetery she decides to
do something about it and try a spot of investigation. But something
nasty is going on, and the perpetrators aren’t shy of murdering
people to get their way and soon there is a body to prove it. But
they haven’t reckoned with Ivy, who not only has a “mutant
curiosity gene” but can draw on her faith in God as well.
Roll over, Miss Marple! This
book has a lot to say about the pitfalls (and some unexpected benefits)
of growing older, but people of any age can read it too and enjoy
its many strengths. You don’t need to be a Christian either,
but Ivy certainly is and finds some of her inner strength from her
faith which is uplifting to read about - surely what “inspirational”
really means. I certainly didn’t guess all of the plot which
keeps the pages turning like anything, and the fact that the tale
is told in Ivy’s own words makes it seem very direct and appealing.
There is adventure, a little background romance, tragedy and comedy
in here and together with the plot, characters, Christian message
and all it fairly bursts like an overstuffed suitcase. Read another?
When book two In Plain Sight comes out in spring
2005 I will certainly be wanting to read it. A very satisfying book
indeed.
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