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The characters kept me turning pages - there's pampered playboy Harry with the million dollar smile, his "dragon" of a mother, and his gold digging girlfriend Niki. At the other end of the spectrum, there is Elizabeth, the driven director of the downtown homeless shelter. She's a bit obsessive/compulsive but her compassion makes up for it. A diverse assortment of "clients" parade through her shelter, including an aggressive, tattooed girl named Cassandra, a delusional young man named Cody who paints murals when his medication allows, and Bright, a strange old man who befriends Harry.
The story was well paced, with touches of humor and some interesting twists. The plight of the homeless is portrayed accurately without being maudlin. However, there are several loose ends that I don't think are covered in the next book, such as the fate of the dragon mother or a homeless girl who went missing. There were also several major points that went unexplained, or else I was just too dense to figure it out, such as who stabbed a major character, and why the dragon mother returns at the end of the story. I wouldn't have labeled this story as "suspense" - the FBI agent in the title makes only a few token appearances, and the "bad guys" don't play much part in the story, aside from being somehow responsible for the collapse of a company and threatening Harry a couple of times. The biggest suspense is waiting for Harry and Elizabeth to discover the identity of their anonymous online friend.
And as far as "inspirational", well....the story mentions praying and God several times, and Harry does have a change of heart. I found this book under "Christian Fiction", but there is no spiritual explanation for Harry's turnaround, and the unnecessary bad language will be offensive to most Christians. The author seems to have gotten her inexplicable need for cursing out of the way at the beginning of the book, with only occasional profanity after that, so if you're willing to overlook some very vile words at first, the story itself is worth reading.
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