I, Saul by Jerry Jenkins

What if when Paul mentioned to bring his parchments he was talking about his memoirs?

Paul is in prison awaiting his death. It is AD 67. Only Luke is with him, ministering to his needs as the physician he is. What if Paul wants Luke to take the parchments and copy them and keep them safe? What if Paul stores them somewhere and over time they get lost?

 What if, in the twenty first century, the parchment is found. Now there are people who want to repress it for political reasons. A call is made to a young professor, Augustine Knox, from a tour guide in Rome to come help him keep the document from falling into the wrong hands.

The story is told using multiple viewpoints and the frame of two time periods. We have the period of AD 67 in the dungeon with Paul awaiting execution and we have the twenty first century with a seminary professor. We follow as Knox goes to Rome to help a tour guide, Roger, who is hiding from the authorities because he has a document that is supposed to be the memoirs of Paul.

 Jenkins handles the periods well and   keeps the suspense heightened.

 Jenkins has always been a good Christian fiction writer and this adds to his bibliography of great tales. I can see a this is volume one of a series.

          Augie groaned. “That’s how many photocopies I have, Georgio. The memoir is incomplete.”
         “You think Klaudios held some back?”
          “I have no idea who did this or when. All I know is that pages are missing.”

  I will be looking forward to the continuation.

  I, Saul

When A Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

     For those of you out there who are Romantic Suspense readers this is a book you should be looking at.
     It concerns a medical examiner who is being followed and people around her are dying. Her name is Serena Hopkins. It is suspenseful.
    It is not quite a medical suspense. It is more of a Christian Suspense novel. She is helped to find the killer by a FBI agent who used to be her childhood crush. So you can expect some romance to be involved.
     Eason uses multiple viewpoints and we also find ourselves following in the thoughts of the killer. She uses the technique of starting each chapter with  reference to time. So suspense is maintained. She does a good job .
       She uses short paragaphs and tightly worded sentences. She is in control of her genre.
      She has you on the edge of your seat as the story unfolds.
       I recommend this book to all suspense novel readers who are looking for a good story.
       This is number two in the series Deadly Reunions. It is copyrighted 2012 so there should be some more to come. If the rest are as good as this one we should have a good series.