A Perfect Place to Pray [Paperback]

I.L. Goodwin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2006

After enduring years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, veteran homicide detective Richard Spencer, Mae Spencer decides she’s had enough. She takes her daughter and flees to Beau Ciel, Louisiana, and tries to put her life back together. She soon has a new job, a new home and even the promise of new love. However, Richard hasn’t given up on finding Mae, and she soon learns that he is closing in. This time, she won’t be able to run.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: Genesis Press (November 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585712027
• ISBN-13: 978-1585712021
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,741,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect Place To Pray, January 31, 2007

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R. A Rippy "rarippy" (Shelbyville, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Perfect Place to Pray (Paperback)

This book not only tells how domestic violence affects the battered person, but everyone around them as well. This book can also be called a story of healing as well. This is a sad story but needed to be told. Great book with an even greater title. To me it deserves '10' stars!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can run, but you can't hide, July 28, 2007

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The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers (RAWSISTAZ.com and BlackBookReviews.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Perfect Place to Pray (Paperback)

Mae is married to Rick, a well-known and respected detective on the police force in Philadelphia. They have a darling six year old daughter, Lily. Mae also has her dream job with a television station. Everything seems so perfect on the outside, but once the door is closed, it's another story. Mae is abused by Rick to the point where, because of internal bleeding, she must sneak to the doctor, who, fortunately, is her best friend, Deborah. Rick calls the beatings "lessons" Mae has to learn. Frequently she has to call in sick at work because her face is so bruised. One day, Rick finally crosses a line - a line that is intolerable to Mae. Conferring with Deborah, she and Lily disappear one night, riding the bus to Mae's hometown in Louisiana. Yes, they've disappeared and Rick is distraught but as a detective, how hard will it be for him to find them?

As expected, Rick pastes their faces all over the national news, along with his woeful image, begging anybody who has seen them to let him know. Secretly, he knows he will kill Mae if and when he catches her. How long will Mae and Lily manage to stay hidden? Her sister, who still lives in Beau Ciel, is willing to help her, but she knows it is only a matter of time. Mae lives a terror-filled existence, mostly for Lily.

A PERFECT PLACE TO PRAY by I. L. Goodwin is a book that contains suspense, tension, fear, horror as well as love. The characters are well developed and easily understood. The plot is compelling and there are enough side issues with the secondary characters to keep those pages turning. I found the book impossible to put down once I started.

Reviewed by Alice Holman

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DIVA'S ZONE, January 3, 2007

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Mercedes L. Henderson "THE DIVA'S ZONE" (PERRY HALL, MARYLAND) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Perfect Place to Pray (Paperback)

This was a good but kind of un-nerving book. The main character...abused her whole life.. God how could she be in her right mind.. all by the people close to her and people she should have been able to trust explicitly. I do however think that her new love life should have been expanded a little more. I don't want to give anything else away, but pick this up and read it with an open mind. The Diva has spoken