Review: Conviction - Book #3 Rebekah Roberts - Julia Dahl - March 2017 I recently saw this book advertised on Social Media and it sounded interesting, so I hopped on the Libby app hoping as it was an older book, my library would have an e-copy and they did. One of the things I love reading about is books set within "the innocence project" as it speaks to me as someone who loves true crime, just how many innocent people are sentenced to prison and have to spend most of their lives there before anyone will even listen to them and then that's only if they are lucky that the right person will pick up their case or see their letter as the project receives thousands of letters a day and some of those people are guilty, but you get some that truly are innocent. In Conviction, we meet reporter Rebekah Roberts who has recently won a journalism fellowship and reported about a mass shooting at a Hasidic Jew temple for the American Voice. She is busy working freelance for the New Y...

Review: Rising Darkness - Book #3 Finding Sanctuary - Nancy Mehl - November 2015 I was in the mood for a bit of romantic suspense and I have in the past enjoyed Nancy Mehl's series as they are set with a Christian theme as in this case Sanctuary is a modern Mennonite town. The book starts with a robbery happening and six million dollars missing. We learn that one of the criminals who was never caught hightailed it to a small town called Sanctuary. A couple of years later, Tom Ford who was a mutual friend of Sophie's from her hometown Mennonite town contacts her where she is a reporter to tell his story in exchange for a lighter sentence. Sophie heads to the town under pretences and a false name - Emily and in the town, she learns more about the people and we see flashbacks of her life growing up. What happens though when Sophie's past clashes with the present when the guy she had a crush on Jonathon is now one of the Pastors in Sanctuary? As the book goes along, it looks l...