The Root of All Evil

Name: The Root of All Evil
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ellery Adams
ISBN: 9781515972532

Author: Ellery Adams, Elizabeth Lockard

Series: Hope Street Church Mysteries #4

Narrator: Cris Dukehart

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/10/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Cozy

Synopsis

Cooper Lee has never been happier. She has terrific friends at Bible study, a great boyfriend in Nathan, and best of all, a new niece or nephew on the way. But storm clouds are gathering when a string of church robberies comes to Hope Street and an art teacher is found dead in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. With Halloween approaching, Cooper's beginning to think there are far more tricks than treats coming her way.

No sooner do she and her friends step in to help the police unearth a killer than they discover a con artist among their flock. Lost in a morass of confusing clues—and even more confusing signals from Nathan—Cooper's not sure which way to turn. With the stakes so high, she sends up a prayer for some divine guidance, because Cooper knows that sometimes it takes the help of a higher power to bring down the lowest form of evildoer.

About Ellery Adams

Ellery Adams has written over forty mystery novels and can't imagine spending a day away from the keyboard. Ms. Adams, a native New Yorker, has had a lifelong love affair with stories, food, rescue animals, and large bodies of water. When not working on her next novel, she reads, bakes, gardens, spoils her three cats, and rearranges her bookshelves. She lives with her husband and two children (aka the Trolls) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shauna on June 20, 2024

My only problem with this series is Cooper's constant straying eye. Does she love Nathan or is the new guy more interesting? I mean, I guess this could be a real life struggle, but she is such a constant in other areas of her life. Not enough to turn me from the series, but some consistency with Coo......more

Goodreads review by Micky on May 30, 2019

What a great installment in the Hope Street Church Mysteries! Fantastic plotting that his interlaced with the personal developments in Cooper and her friends lives. When murder strikes way too close for comfort the bible club springs into action to root the evil out of their midst. While this is a C......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on October 21, 2021

I am continuously amazed at the author's ability to write such moving stories. Although murder isn't very commonplace for the majority of folks (thank God!), each of the characters and happenings are so real! Life hardships and inner conflict. Relationship struggles and happy endings. This series ha......more

Goodreads review by A Reader's Heaven on August 06, 2016

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.) Cooper Lee has never been happier. She has terrific friends at Bible study, a great boyfriend in Nathan, and best of all, a new niece or nephew on the way. But storm clouds are gathering when a string of church ro......more

Goodreads review by Rhonda on November 05, 2014

4 STARS This is a new Hope Street Church Mystery book. It makes a good cozy mystery, I guessed who the thief at Cooper's work early on. The other mystery of who the killer was blind sided me. I wish there was more of Nathan's character. I don't think I would be so welcoming a thief into my house. Th......more