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When a popular youth pastor is accused of a grisly crime, MacLaren Yarbrough won't rest until she finds the truth. Her gut instinct tells her Luke Blessed is innocent. Still, how could the dream he had on the night a young woman was murdered depict the crime with such chilling accuracy? As MacLaren tracks down clues from all corners of Hopewell, GA, four like suspects emerge. But the police aren't buying her theories. Even her husband, local magistrate Joe Riddley, resists her amateur show more sleuthing. This case, he feels, is too dangerous. Just how dangerous, both of them are about to discover. The assailant strikes again, leaving Joe comatose from a gunshot wound to the head. And suddenly, a new question stares MacLaren in the face. It's the most perplexing question of all -- and the most personal: Why shoot the magistrate? show lessTags
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The second book in the Thoroughly Southern Mystery series has MacLaren Yarbourgh attemptng to solve two mysteries - did the minister kill the young girl and who shot her husband.
Reverend Blessed has detailed the murder of a young woman by what he saw in a dream but the police don't believe that it was a dream. As Mac delves deeper into the people involved in the victim's life, she is threatened and Joe Riddley, her husband is shot. To protect herself and her family she has to find the killer.
I've been reading this series a bit out of order but it is still fun because of the characters and the environment, I will definitely continue on.
Reverend Blessed has detailed the murder of a young woman by what he saw in a dream but the police don't believe that it was a dream. As Mac delves deeper into the people involved in the victim's life, she is threatened and Joe Riddley, her husband is shot. To protect herself and her family she has to find the killer.
I've been reading this series a bit out of order but it is still fun because of the characters and the environment, I will definitely continue on.
I loved this book.
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Patricia Sprinkle was born in West Virginia, but grew up in North Carolina and Florida. After graduating from Vasser College where she studied creative writing, Sprinkle spent a year writing in the Scottish Highlands. Sprinkle has written non-fiction articles for religious magazines such as Guideposts and has also written educational materials on show more hunger. Sprinkle enjoys reading mysteries, and since 1988, Sprinkle has written twenty mystery novels. Sprinkle and her husband live in Georgia. They have two grown children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- But Why Shoot the Magistrate?
- Original title
- But Why Shoot the Magistrate?
- Original publication date
- 1998-09
- People/Characters
- MacLaren Yarbrough; Joe Riddley Yarbrough; Ridd Yarbrough; Martha Yarbrough; Cricket Yarbrough; Bethany Yarbrough (show all 24); Walker Yarbrough; Cindy Yarbrough; Hubert Spence; Maynard Spence; Dr Drew Holder; Luke Blessed; Amanda Kent; Selena Jones; Gideon Levy; Victor Davis; Lorine Duckworth; Ronald Duckworth; Rhonda Duckworth; Goswami Pandava; Charlie Muggins; Isaac James; Bailey (Buster) Gibbons (Buster); Miss Bessie
- Epigraph
- In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings. Job 33:15
- Dedication
- This one is for Judge MIldred Ann Palmer
for friendship,
a role model
... (show all); the big idea,
and help with little details. - First words
- The night of the first murder, a full moon sailed over middle Georgia.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Of course, it wasn't so pleasant when I got involved with Hector Blaine and the Confederate treasury mess -- but that's a different story . . .
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