City of Strangers

The second book in the Luis Chavez series lives up to the first. The story picks up a few months after the end of the previous book (Fields of Wrath), and Father Luis Chavez gets pulled into another far-reaching mystery that he has to help solve when a fellow pastor is murdered outside his church. Wh......more

City of strangers by Mark Wheaton is a mystery and thriller and general fiction read. When a priest is brutally gunned down in front of St. Jerome’s Chinese-American Catholic Church, Father Luis Chavez is asked by the archdiocese to lead an inquiry. With the confessed killer already in custody, it l......more

Mark Wheaton has come up with an interesting Detective in Father Luis. It started out with a bang and ended with a can't wait for the next one. This venture has about 6 stories melted into 1 and he did a fantastic job. Characters were developed along the way and even changed point of view along the......more

Father Chavez and Michael Story make a good team in this topical thriller. I liked that Wheaton made this more complex than it could have been by weaving in multiple threads- kept me guessing, which is always a positive in my book! The characters are good- well rounded and thoughtfully created- but......more

This was a better read than book one for me. I like the protagonist and am familiar with the Los Angeles area. Instead of illegal aliens from across the southern border, this focuses on Asian triads. I have no first hand knowledge of them, so it was all very interesting to me. I won a free copy of this......more