5.0

** Disclosure: I was given an Advanced Readers Copy by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. **

If you’re reading this review but you haven’t read the first eight Clare/Russ books, you must stop reading. Right now. Go straight to your source for books and get the first one, [b:In the Bleak Midwinter|113002|In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1)|Julia Spencer-Fleming|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558669830l/113002._SY75_.jpg|265055]. You’ll thank me, I promise! :)

There’s so much to enjoy in HID FROM OUR EYES. It was a pleasure getting to know Russ as a young man, Margery as both a young woman and a middle-aged one, and one or two of Clare’s parishioners in their youth as well. The mystery was especially good: how can three almost-identical murders over a 30-year span possibly be committed by the same person? Yet how can they not, with so many similarities?

I absolutely do not want to spoil anything, but I will say that my 5-star rating was firmly sealed by one heck of a spectacular, cliff-hanging ending. I do hope the next book comes quickly!