The Mystery Bookshelf: Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming, a Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery

The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.

Julia Spencer-Flemining was the winner of the 2001 SMP Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest for In the Bleak Midwinter, which introduced Anglican priest Clare Fergusson and Chief of Police Russ Van Alstryne. Published by Minotaur Books in 2002, it went on to win numerous literary mystery awards.

Earlier this year Minotaur Books began reissuing the books in this series, in order, in new trade paperback editions. This is the third, first published published in 2004.

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Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (3rd in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: October 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-01604-1

About Out of the Deep I Cry (from the publisher): On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no one ever saw Jonathan Ketchem again …

Now decades later, someone else is missing in Miller's Kill, NY. This time it's the physician of the clinic that bears the Ketchem name. Suspicion falls on a volatile single mother with a grudge against the doctor, but Reverend Clare Fergusson isn't convinced. As Clare and Russ investigate, they discover that the doctor's disappearance is linked to a bloody trail going all the way back to the hardscrabble Prohibition era. As they draw ever closer to the truth, their attraction for each other grows increasingly more difficult to resist. And their search threatens to uncover secrets that snake from one generation to the next-and to someone who's ready to kill.

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About the author: Julia Spencer-Fleming was born at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, spending most of her childhood on the move as an army brat. She studied acting and history at Ithaca College, and received her J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. She lives outside of Portland, Maine. Two of the books in this series — In the Bleak Midwinter and All Mortal Flesh — have won multiple literary mystery awards. For more information about the author and her books, visit her website at JuliaSpencerFleming.com.