Review: Deadly Echoes - Nancy Mehl

Review: Deadly Echoes - Book #2 Finding Sanctuary Series - Nancy Mehl - February 2015

Continuing with my goal to clear old books off my kindle and I was in the mood for a bit of suspense after reading a few romance novels, I decided to read Nancy Mehl's Deadly Echoes as I am a fan of her edgy Christian fiction novels. Also, I had before reading this the memory of Fire Storm by Nancy Mehl - a book that I had read last year and enjoyed. Deadly Echoes starts with a similar theme to a book I have read this year called Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh where the two main characters suffered as children when both of their parents were murdered. Sarah and Hannah hid under the steps and heard the killers. Both girls went into foster care and were separated as Hannah was adopted and Sarah wasn't. Now years later the girls have found each other and Sarah met her lovely niece Cicely. Their dreams of a long reunion are cut short though when Hannah is murdered. Sarah is contacted where she has been living since she was 18 - in the small Mennonite community of Sanctuary. She is the local school-teacher. Now Sarah must take custody of her niece Cicely and prove to the sheriff's and police that Hannah's death is related to her parents' murder as Hannah before she died had found proof that the killer of her parents had never been found and the guy arrested was innocent. Is Hannah's murder connected and is someone now after Sarah and Cicely as they are trying to tie up loose ends to that fateful night when Sarah was a child? I do have to admit when the killer was revealed at the end, I was a little disappointed as it seemed like weak reasoning to kill Hannah as it was back then - their parents and another couple as it turns out they had also murdered - all to keep a dark secret. However, readers if you love edgy Christian fiction and Christian Romantic Suspense, then check out Nancy Mehl's series Finding Sanctuary.