A Minute Before Friday (The Light Foot Trilogy #3) [Paperback]

Jo Kadlecek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 2008

Religion reporter Jonna Lightfoot MacLaughlin has traded her beat in the Big Easy for a dream job in the Big Apple. But with the move, she finds that real witches and holy con men loom larger than anything she?s confronted before. And when an old friend leaks an Ivy League secret, Jonna must confront the dark forces that run deep within the city. What she discovers is more shocking than all of the stories she?s ever reported combined. Will she be able to withstand?and expose?the truth?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A Minute Before Friday is a gripping story told by an author who shares a love for the city, for words, for coffee, and eventually for the truth. I found it hard to stop reading." -- Dr. Taylor Field, author of A Church Called Graffiti, and Squat

"Faithful readers of THE LIGHTFOOT TRILOGY will be enthralled with this shocking continuation of Jonna's adventures into the urban jungle and her own jumbled soul . . . Thematically, Kadlecek concludes her literary tale with a challenging look into Christianity in the modern university and in the heart of her modern young journalist." -- Heather R. Hunt, Title Trakk.com

"Wonderful finale! Beyond charming, Lightfoot finds her voice and her soul. This is great fiction." -- Kelly Monroe Kullberg, author of, Finding God Beyond Harvard

From the Back Cover

Religion reporter Jonna Lightfoot MacLaughlin has traded her beat in the Big Easy for a dream job in the Big Apple. But with the move, she finds that real witches and holy con men loom larger than anything she?s confronted before. And when an old friend leaks an Ivy League secret, Jonna must confront the dark forces that run deep within the city. What she discovers is more shocking than all of the stories she?s ever reported combined. Will she be able to withstand?and expose?the truth?

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: NavPress (May 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160006051X
• ISBN-13: 978-1600060519
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #755,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jo Kadlecek's book is a compelling read, March 2, 2009

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L. OConnor - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Minute Before Friday (The Light Foot Trilogy #3) (Paperback)

Jonna Lightfoot MacLaughlin is brave and unsure, confident yet hates her hair, and curious which makes her a great religion reporter. I wish I could have coffee with her in New York and follow her on Twitter. Instead she's in the pages of Jo Kadlecek's third novel in the Lightfoot Trilogy Series, A Minute Before Friday. If you're a fan of NYC Jonna is a great guide. She also gives a peek into the world of reporting. Her probing questions into both story and soul make for a suspenseful read that I lost sleep over. I sat down with A Minute Before Friday for a few chapters and ended up reading to the last page one very enjoyable evening.

5.0 out of 5 stars Storytelling at its best, September 16, 2008

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Minute Before Friday (The Light Foot Trilogy #3) (Paperback)

Jonna Lightfoot MacLaughlin, religion reporter extraordinaire, has moved up in the world. No longer in Denver, or even New Orleans, she's in the news capital, the capital of the world, New York City. But as Jonna is wont to do, she stirs up all kinds of trouble while searching for the elusive Good News story.

The ultimate melting pot is the place to be when searching for religion stories. There is one in every new face on the subway. Covens of Wiccans demanding equal rights for their dead, former gang bangers hanging out at the Chinatown Jesus Center, and an Ivy League school with an expensive secret-everything's a potential story. But in Jonna's quest for truth, truth is the last thing she's getting.

This is book three in the Lightfoot trilogy. Having only read the first book in the trilogy, I was a little concerned that I would have missed too great of a chunk of Jonna's life to enjoy jumping in at book three. And though I now want to go back and read two, I didn't find myself frustrated a bit at this non-dependant sequel.

This book was a real page turner. Not suspenseful enough to make me lose sleep or get the creeps in front of a window at night, but with enough shady characters, missing people and mystery to keep me reading. My chief complaint is that the chapters are pretty long and never end at a point where it is okay to quit for the night. I yawned all day, I tell ya. But it was worth it.

Armchair Interviews says: A good Christian fiction with strong characters and sleep-losing storytelling.

4.0 out of 5 stars Summer reading at its best, June 6, 2008

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S. Tulloch - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Minute Before Friday (The Light Foot Trilogy #3) (Paperback)

The third in a trilogy, this novel shows Kadlecek has saved the best for last- setting this novel in the Big Apple. A great read for anyone who shares a love for the city or just wants to be swept up in the life of a NYC reporter.
-Sarah Tulloch, Editorial Assistant at HCPro, Inc. and former Journalism student of Jo.