Review: True Believers

First, right off, I have to admit that I love and adore Jane Haddam. Her dry wit and her ability to cut to the heart of an issue are like a spring breeze through my soul. We don’t agree on many issues, but I would not change a single thing about her . . . or about the way she writes. I have loved her books from the first one I read, and regardless of her unfounded fears about each new book, for me, each one is another layer of delight for my reading pleasure.

True Believers is no less. It is more. Not only does she understand the Catholic Church like few other writers, she understands my beloved Episcopal Church, too. And once again, she kept me guessing right up to the last. All of the clues were there, right in front of me, but I managed to miss the right combination of pieces to the puzzle.

No other writer, for me, has quite the turn of phrase, adjectives, and thoughts of Jane Haddam. I laughed out loud and groaned in sympathy with Gregor and Bennis once more, and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of “True Believers”. Where else would I find phrases like “she had all the fashion sense of a psychotic duck” or read about a digital machine for making sock balls? Where else could I be “in the minds” of characters I have come to so enjoy? Where else could I find such delight in Gregor’s confusion over Bennis, and Bennis’ confusion with Gregor? Where else could I read about an Armenian priest hooked on the Internet and on the love of learning? Where else could I glimpse another culture so like and yet unlike my own? Only in Jane Haddam’s Gregor Demarkian series. There is no other like it, and every book is a delight of its own. True Believer’s is the latest gem on the necklace. Don’t miss it! If you see what I mean . . .

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Book Review: True Believers

Please Note: Books reviewed are usually provided by the publisher, author, or an agent. Reviewers usually get to keep the book.