QUAKER TESTIMONY [Paperback]

Irene Allen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: St Martins Pr (1996)
• ASIN: B000OT4WRY
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mystery for Serious Believers, January 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Quaker Testimony (Mass Market Paperback)

I love reading mysteries, but am often troubled by the situations and the content. I stumbled on Irene Allen's book, Quaker Testimony, at MacIntyre's Fine Books and Bookends at the Village of Fearrington, near Chapel Hill, NC (a wonderful bookstore, by the way). This book tells a good story, reveals some very interesting and very deep characters, and touches on some extremely important issues for our time -- like the place of faith in our lives, the importance and role of faith communities, and the need to accept our brothers and sisters in faith at their word and support their convictions, even when we don't always share them ourselves. The main character, Elisabeth Elliot, is the Clerk of the Quaker Meeting in Cambridge, MA. She is in her 60s, a widow, and a very thoughtful, caring, yet sober and "good" character, in every sense of the word. She has strong convictions and isn't timid about sharing them when necessary. But she does so in a sensitive and compassionate way, with very positive results. I hope this books finds a wide readership among people who enjoy a good mystery but who can't stomach the harshness of writers like Patricia Cornwell all the time.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great mystery with morals!, June 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Quaker Testimony (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the 3rd Quaker Mystery that I have read by Irene Allen! It is a wonderful book dealing with real life Quaker issues! I felt it was a refreshing twist on your typical mystery. I am looking forward to reading her next one - Quaker Indictment. I am Quaker and the religious aspects of the book are true to the religion! It also was a fun book to read!! I hope others will read Irene Allens Quaker Mysteries!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Quaker instruction, mediocre crime mystery, January 20, 1999

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This review is from: Quaker Testimony: An Elizabeth Elliot Mystery (Hardcover)

As a British Quaker, this book was of considerable interest to me. The picture it portrays of American Quaker life was a surprise in some ways - the intensity of the faith and the faithfulness of daily behaviour struck me as extremely 'other worldly'. Elizabeth is a likeable woman, and concern for her kept me reading. However, the actual mystery was very predictable almost from the first, and the somewhat contrived accumulation of accident, would-be suicide and ultimate detection is not especially well structured. It is, however, courageous to write about murder amongst Quakers, and the Peace Testimony is very well explored, in the light of imperfect human beings, and their capacity for sin and self-deception. Rebecca Tope