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A Fountain Filled with Blood
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mysteries with a church setting and/or a clergyperson detective have always been appealing to me. I read Dorothy Sayers' Nine Tailors and Charles Merrill Smith's Rev. Randolph stories and I've been a fan ever since. Julia Spencer-Fleming may not be in the same league with Sayers and Smith but I have found her books to be quite readable. Like some other mystery authors her books should be read in order. A Fountain Filled With Blood is the second in the Rev. Clare Fergusson mysteries. The title comes from a hymn popular in some churches. Clare is an Episcopal Priest in her 30s who was an Army helicopter pilot before she went to seminary. When a series of gay bashings happens in the New York town of Millers Kill Clare and the Millers Kill Police Chief team up to find who is doing it. At the same time several people connected with an unpopular resort development project turn up dead. Are the deaths and the bashings connected. Before we find out Clare and Russ will place themselves in more than one dangerous situation.