10 Days
The Unlikely Story of a Global Movement Mourning for the Return of Jesus

A gripping page-turner with heart set in Portland, Maine. I loved Dee Rommel -- a fully rounded protagonist with real flaws, but real heart -- and her quest to solve a mystery about a secretive wedding... My only gripe: I had to stay up way too late the last two days of reading because I couldn't pu......more

As a father of three, two of them daughters, I struggled to find heroic stories to read to my daughters. It was easy to find such fare for my son, but there was a gross absence of children's books that offered a brave female with whom my girls could identify. And so I fabricated a few stories to tel......more

Dee Rommel is a gritty PI who never wavers in her personal moral philosophy. This mettle will be tested as an ex-con is back on the streets threatening her and her friends who put him away and a new case lands on her desk. A cutting-edge tech guru wants to find his daughter before she marries the wr......more

Yay for the female detective genre!!! Selbo is the latest author to join that mystery writing club and she enters thru the door with a bang, giving the reader a complex, energetic, nuanced protagonist in Dee Rommel. A former policewoman and resident of Portland, Maine, Dee has to come to terms with......more

While this mystery was fairly well-plotted and featured an interesting protagonist, the details of its Portland, Maine setting were a huge distraction from the story for me. I'm sure it's because of the author's brief time here, and I hope future installments of the series get more of the specifics......more