The Good Friday Murder [Paperback]

Lee Harris (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett Books (1993)
• ASIN: B0012HCU0S
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a WONDERFUL Book, April 8, 2002

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Thomas H. Griffith (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Friday Murder (Christine Bennett Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

If you can read (or listen to the audiobook version) this story and not be in tears by the end, you are a stronger reader than I am. This was one of the most moving stories I've ever read. Ms. Harris is able, in the guise of telling the simple tale of a nun who left the convent and gets involved in a mystery simply through the process of living her everyday life, to create characters who are so sympathy-engendering as to make them part of your life. They become like family--and their deaths had me sobbing.
Add that to a well-crafted mystery story, and you have the beginning of a mystery series of books which one will want to read, and re-read in later years.
May Ms. Harris be able to keep on writing Christine Bennett
mystery stories!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOT A RUN-OF-THE-MILL MYSTERY!!, August 13, 2000

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Karen Boml "Kiki" (Hudson, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Friday Murder (Christine Bennett Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the first Christine Bennett mystery I read....as soon as I closed the last page, I went to my local bookstore and bought the complete series!! Christine spent half her life in a convent, and upon deciding that she was not cut out to be a nun, moved to her recently deceased Aunt's home in New York state.... While at a local town meeting in her town of Oakwood, she volunteered to investigate a murder by mentally challenged savard twins who were convicted of murdering their mother 50 years ago on Good Friday....the town members were afraid to allow Greenwillow Institution permission to relocate in Oakwood. Christine visited her own mentally challenged cousin, Gene, many times and got to know the savard twins. With the help of Jack Brooks, a local policeman, Christine solves this first of many mysteries.....at the same time they are realizing they each have feelings for the other....(this is only the beginning of a great relationship.......) This mystery, as well as those that follow, is a great read with original plot and superb character development....so many series seem to fizzle out after a few reads, but this one only gets better and better!! Any mystery that keeps me guessing right up to the end is a "5" in my book!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart and believable, July 22, 2002

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Alicia K. Ahlvers "alibrarian" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Friday Murder (Christine Bennett Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

Christine Bennett is in the process of readjusting to "normal life" after spending 15 years as a cloistered nun. At a town meeting, she speaks in defense of disabled twin brothers accused of killing their mother 40 years before and to her surprise is put in charge of researching the case. As she starts to dig into the past, she meets a helpful (and smitten) police officer who helps in her search for the truth.

Christina does not run around accusing people of the murder without evidence, judge suspects harshly for their past actions or deliberately place herself in danger which is a refreshing change. This is a refreshing cozy mystery with likeable characters and an engrossing mystery.