Second Advent (Nick Bertetto mystery series) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

When Nick Bertetto, a stay-at-home dad and former investigative reporter, is asked to return to his hometown of Clinton, Indiana to investigate the death of the town patriarch, he views it as a chance to spend some time with his dad and pal around his old Italian-American stomping grounds. It isn’t long before his attitude changes. The alleged suicide is quite probably murder, and members of the patriarch’s family are drawing battle lines over the will. But Nick is most disturbed that the old family priest who summoned him and the patriarch’s granddaughter who wants him to prove it was murder, had the most to gain from the death. The priest and the granddaughter run an organization called “Children of the Second Advent,” to which half of the estate was left. ‘Second Advent’ promotes the messages of the Virgin Mary to a local visionary, who claims Mary appears to her pregnant, signaling the second coming of Christ. Nick’s own romantic past with the visionary complicates his investigation. The two were once lovers.Nor is the visionary the only telegenic religious figure in the community. A faith-healing minister has set up shop in Clinton and expanded his peculiar evangelism throughout the Wabash Valley area. His church is at odds with ‘Second Advent,’ and he seems to have special influence with the Clinton police.Farmers angry about the patriarch's plan to sell farmland adjoining their farms to a coal company also emerge as suspects. The patriarch owned the mineral rights to their farms.Soon there are several lives in jeopardy, and all Nick wants to do is stop sorting suspects and go back to sorting laundry. Out of leads and nearly out of time, he must find a way to join the suspects as they converge on the one place where all pretenses will be dropped, all secrets revealed, and a miracle is prophesied—the birthplace of ‘Second Advent.’