Two of my book club friends highly recommended Florida-based writer Charles Martin's mysteries featuring Shepherd Murphy. They were right! The first in this series is The Water Keeper (#1,345), and if you decide to read these books, this is the place to start.
Shepherd Murphy lives on an island off the north Florida/Georgia border, tending a church built by slaves and its attendant graveyard and citrus grove. One evening a beautiful young woman comes to the church off a luxurious yacht seeking a priest. She's clearly high on drugs or alcohol or both, but Shepherd listens to her until she reboards the boat, hoping she will decide to stay on the island.
As he sets out on his own voyage to say goodbye to his past far down in Key West, he encounters another beautiful woman on a mission of her own: to save her daughter.
What follows is a taut chase after some very bad people and a gradual unraveling of secrets in Shepherd's own past. It makes for a fascinating read.
Plus, it's always fun to read about places you visit every day in a novel!
I can't wait to read the other four books in this exciting and provocative series.
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