Not of This Fold, Mette Ivie Harrison
Not of This Fold, Mette Ivie Harrison
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Not of This Fold

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/04/2018


Synopsis

Now that all five of her sons have left home, Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim has quite a bit of time on her hands, most of which she spends worrying about the state of the country and how her youngest son, Samuel, who is openly gay, is faring on his mission in Boston. She has also become close with one of the women in her ward, Gwen Ferris.

But Gwen is quickly losing faith in the church, and her issues with the Mormon power structure are only reinforced by her calling in Draper's local "Spanish ward." The ward's members are both legal and undocumented immigrants who aren't always getting the community support they should be from their church, and have been assigned a bishop who doesn't speak their language.

When Gabriela Gonzalez, a young mother and Gwen's friend in the Spanish Ward, is found strangled at a gas station, Gwen is paralyzed with guilt. The dead woman's last phone call was to Gwen, and her voice mail reveals that she knew she was in danger. When Gwen decides the police aren't doing enough to get justice for Gabriela, who was undocumented, she decides to find the killer herself. Linda reluctantly takes part in Gwen's vigilante sleuthing, fearing for her young friend's safety, but what the pair discovers may put them both in danger.

About Mette Ivie Harrison

Mette Ivie Harrison is the author of the Linda Wallheim mystery series, as well as numerous books for young adults. She holds a PhD in German literature from Princeton University and is a nationally ranked triathlete. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, she lives in Utah with her husband and five children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on December 07, 2018

Mormons have an “it’s complicated” relationship with the mystery novel. They have been there since the very beginning of the genre. The first modern series mystery, Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet (1887) takes place partly in Utah and features Mormon characters as both the killer and the dea......more

Goodreads review by George on December 30, 2019

The first several chapters, before the mystery actually starts, do extensive explication about the Utah Mormon culture we readers will be swimming in. After it starts, there's yet more explication, of course. All done well,* and including a few things that this Catholic, despite being a long-time ob......more

Goodreads review by Scott on December 18, 2018

I’m not a fan of Harrison’s novels, probably because I don’t see the Mormonism I know reflected in the world she creates for her readers. But I like that she uses her fiction to engage contemporary challenges within Mormonism. If nothing else, her novels have great potential to open up dialogue abou......more