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Hope Taylor arrives in Apple Springs to start her new life as the first female pastor of Faith Chapel Episcopal Church. The northern California town's quaint cottages, bungalows, and shops promise a fresh start for the 42-year-old widow and Bogie, her scruffy black Labrador. But where is Father Christopher? The kindly old rector who hired Pastor Hope was supposed to meet her upon her arrival, but he's nowhere to be seen. Hope's faith springs eternal, so she explores the little white church hoping to find Father Christopher. But when she enters the columbarium, she instead finds church elder Stanley King--his skull crushed by a fallen burial urn.Hope had made Stanley's acquaintance before, and had struggled to take a charitable view of his character. Stanley was as wicked as he was wealthy, as petty as he was pious.
About the Author
Agatha Award nominated author Laura Jensen Walker has written several books--both fiction and non-fiction. Her books all share one common thread: humor. A lover of mysteries since she read her first Trixie Belden in fourth grade, Laura is thrilled to be writing lighthearted mystery novels. Her Bookish Baker Mystery series (MURDER MOST SWEET, DEADLY DELIGHTS) set in the small town of Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, features writer, baker, and breast-cancer survivor Teddie St. John and her irrepressible American Eskimo Gracie. Murder Most Sweet has been nominated for a 2020 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Laura's Faith Chapel Mystery series (HOPE, FAITH, & A CORPSE) set in rural Northern California, features the movie-loving Episcopal priest Pastor Hope Taylor and her loyal Black Lab Bogie.Grateful to be a longtime breast cancer survivor (THANKS FOR THE MAMMOGRAM!) Laura flew a typewriter across Europe in Uncle Sam's Air Force in her twenties, and lived in Oxfordshire, England for three years where she became a lifelong, tea-loving Anglophile. A native of Racine, Wisconsin, dog-lover Laura lives in Northern California with her Renaissance-man husband and their canine daughter, Mellie.She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America.Please visit her website at: www.laurajensenwalker.com
