A Matter Of Trust by Lis Wiehl

        

         Another entry in the mystery genre. Wiehl is starting a new series of mysteries. Her main character in this series is going to be a female prosecutor who is a widow and parent of two children, a teenage son and a four year old  daughter.

          This story starts fast. Maybe it is because of the short blasts of action we have come to expect from our television programs. No build up Just boom. You are in the middle of the action.

          A friend gets killed while making a phone call. From there our main character, Mia Quinn, whom this series is going to be built around, starts to move into action.

          Mia is a prosecutor and also a mother. She is also a widow trying to hold her family together. Her teenage son is hard to handle and is influenced by the bad element at school. He seems to be looking for peer approval. Her daughter is having nightmares.

          To pursue the case she joins up with a detective who in the past has disappointed her. There is tension as they work the case.

          This book covers FaceBook stalking and peer pressure. Also the issue of trust.

          Tension mounts as the home life of Quinn and the case she is working on start to intersect with each other.

          Wiehl has good characterization. This could be a good series in the making.

          She has done, in the past, The Triple Threat Series and the East Salem Trilogy.

          I have receive this book free from the BookSneeze  book reviewer program to review and the views expressed are those of the reviewer and not the publisher. I was not required to give a positive review.                  

  Another entry in the mystery genre. Wiehl is starting a new series of mysteries. Her main character in this series is going to be a female prosecutor who is a widow and parent of two children, a teenage son and a four year old  daughter.

Another entry in the mystery genre. Wiehl is starting a new series of mysteries. Her main character in this series is going to be a female prosecutor who is a widow and parent of two children, a teenage son and a four year old  daughter.

          This story starts fast. Maybe it is because of the short blasts of action we have come to expect from our television programs. No build up Just boom. You are in the middle of the action.

          A friend gets killed while making a phone call. From there our main character, Mia Quinn, whom this series is going to be built around, starts to move into action.

          Mia is a prosecutor and also a mother. She is also a widow trying to hold her family together. Her teenage son is hard to handle and is influenced by the bad element at school. He seems to be looking for peer approval. Her daughter is having nightmares.

          To pursue the case she joins up with a detective who in the past has disappointed her. There is tension as they work the case.

          This book covers FaceBook stalking and peer pressure. Also the issue of trust.

          Tension mounts as the home life of Quinn and the case she is working on start to intersect with each other.

          Wiehl has good characterization. This could be a good series in the making.

          She has done, in the past, The Triple Threat Series and the East Salem Trilogy.

          I have receive this book free from the BookSneeze  book reviewer program to review and the views expressed are those of the reviewer and not the publisher. I was not required to give a positive review.                  

          This story starts fast. Maybe it is because of the short blasts of action we have come to expect from our television programs. No build up Just boom. You are in the middle of the action.

          A friend gets killed while making a phone call. From there our main character, Mia Quinn, whom this series is going to be built around, starts to move into action.

          Mia is a prosecutor and also a mother. She is also a widow trying to hold her family together. Her teenage son is hard to handle and is influenced by the bad element at school. He seems to be looking for peer approval. Her daughter is having nightmares.

          To pursue the case she joins up with a detective who in the past has disappointed her. There is tension as they work the case.

          This book covers FaceBook stalking and peer pressure. Also the issue of trust.

          Tension mounts as the home life of Quinn and the case she is working on start to intersect with each other.

          Wiehl has good characterization. This could be a good series in the making.

          She has done, in the past, The Triple Threat Series and the East Salem Trilogy.

          I have receive this book free from the BookSneeze  book reviewer program to review and the views expressed are those of the reviewer and not the publisher. I was not required to give a positive review
                

The Customer Rules by Lee Cockerell

          This business book of rules has 39 rules that are simple to follow and are essential to remember.

            There have been many book of rules that have been written and no doubt there will be many more penned ,for as Solomon, the wisest man, has said “of the writing of books there is no end..”

            What makes this collection so good is that it is so evident but rarely realized. If we were to keep these rules in mind we could give better service and have more customers than we can handle. As he points out you can win a customer one at a time or lose them in the  thousands. It only takes one person tweeting or posting on FaceBook to make or break your company.

            What we need to realize is that true customer service is not a department but a personal responsibility. In fact, these rules can be applied to the church  leadership also. The people in the congregation and visitors are the customers there.

            Cockerell  uses personal stories to illustrate his recorded rules. That is putting flesh to abstracts. 

            I would recommend it for all who are giving customer service as well as ministers within the church.

            I was sent this book free from WaterBrook Multinomah Publishing Group for this review. I was not required to give a positive review. The views expressed are those of the reviewer and not the publisher.

           

As Silver Refined by Kay Arthur

          In this book we have presented God as a refiner and us as a piece of silver that is being worked upon. Only unlike the silver we can  choose how the fire is refining us.. The silver is refined by being put in the fire. We on the same hand are refined by the fire of disappointment.

Part of the refining fire Arthur seems to say is a form of  warfare with Satan. She spends fifteen chapters in her style of presenting truth informing us that the sovereignty of God acts as an umbrella over the refining activity.

We have a choice when it comes to responding. We can act in disappointment and allow Satan to draw us away from God or we can allow the disappointment to be interpreted as God’s appointment to refine us into His image..

Arthur is a teacher who strives to plant her readers on the .foundation of the Bible. What does it say? What does it mean in my life? 

I find her style of presenting biblical themes and topics easy to digest. She informs and prods.

The information is presented in a cohesive appealing manner. It is presented in a tone that soothes and draws you to God. She even makes an appeal to the reader who isn’t in relationship with God to start up a journey with Him..

I would recommend this for small groups to study.

            I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multinomah Publishing for this review. I was not required to give a positive review. The opinions expressed are those of the reviewer and not of the publisher.