A Fountain Filled With Blood

, #2

by

eBook, 304 pages

Published April 1, 2010 by St. Martin's Paperbacks.

ISBN:
978-1-4299-0906-8
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OCLC Number:
829028539
2 stars (1 review)

In In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Fleming's Malice Domestic-winning first mystery, Reverend Clare Fergusson was quickly introduced to a more eventful life than she had expected after moving to the small town of Millers Kill in upstate New York. But the Episcopal priest and former Army Air Force chopper pilot proved to her flock—and to police chief Russ Van Alstyne—that she could cope with the unexpected, even when it was as dire as murder. In this new adventure for the two ill-matched friends (who are gamely resisting something beyond friendship), evidence shows that a small town can hold just as much evil as the Wicked City.

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reviewed A Fountain Filled With Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne, #2)

Held back by too fantastic scheme

2 stars

Clare Fergusson gets embroiled in a series of gay-bashing crimes in Miller's Kill. Spencer-Fleming captures how liberal uncomfortableness with homosexuality contributes homophobia even when they think they are supportive. But the gay-bashing is too obviously calculated and the ultimate motivation is economic. It's a too-fantastic of a scheme. As a police procedural, the story doesn't hold together well either due to how involved Russ Van Alstyne (the Miller's Kill police chief) allows Clare Fergusson to be. He can bring in professionals, but allows a hard-charging Fergusson to drive the investigation, even when he says it's a bad idea.

Subjects

  • Gay men
  • Episcopalians
  • Clare Fergusson (Fictitious character)
  • Russ Van Alstyne (Fictitious character)
  • Women clergy
  • Police chiefs
  • Clergy
  • Episcopal Church

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