An ill-fated class reunion at Fort Point. . .Maine’s most famous author is murdered the night after the reunion. A classmate turns up dead a few days later, apparently drowned at Fort Point.What does a cold case burglary have to do with the deaths? And did a third classmate really commit suicide?The Priority Unit solves its most challenging case, relying on wits, hard work, and faith. Meanwhile, … and faith. Meanwhile, Jennifer Wainthrop plans her wedding but manages to hand the detectives some important clues.
Detective Harvey Larson is offered a job he doesn’t want, until he learns the police chief has had a tragic accident. Captain Mike Browning is on vacation in Maine’s far north, and proves a difficult man to track down.
Harvey and Jennifer continue their faith journey and romance while untangling the evidence.
Despite many obstacles, the Priority Unit is once again serving up Maine Justice.
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I think this series would bemorefun to read in order. Really good author.
I loved this Series but they are better if you read them in order
A tale of a Reunion gone awry. Three classmates dead shortly after the reunion…what did they have in common besides being classmates? Enjoyed Jennifer and Harveys sweet interactions, including light-hearted teasings. Enjoyed this book.
Well written and so easy to relate to the problems everyone was confronted with. It was great to read that our people who pray before acting.
Good story but slow developing.
Wonderful story with engaging characters. Definitely want to read the series.
Loved the characters
Very good plot twists and well written.
thoroughly enjoyed the read. Couldn’t put it down.
I really enjoyed this book and the entire series. Good action and mystery!
This book started with A PROBLRM TO BE solved, the dearth of prominent writer, the engagement of a couple and their influence on others. Anyone who reads this book will be thrilled and inspired,
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It’s a good story. It starts a bit slow but gets more interesting as it goes on.
This one starts us out about 2 weeks after the first book. We meet a few of Jennifer’s siblings and some other new characters, but the main ones are Harvey, Eddie, Jennifer and Beth, along with Mike some others from the detective unit. We start off with a murder of a famous author, which is followed shortly by the discovery of a drowning victim, or was it drowning? Through the course of trying to find clues and leads a 35 year old cold case is discovered. Does it have any bearing on the case now, and how will they find the info to unravel it? Along with Harvey in the thick of trying to solve this case, we have him and Jennifer planning and getting ready for their wedding in just 4 weeks. Harvey really wants this case wrapped up before then. Will everything come together in time? Another great story I stayed up way too late finishing.
Harvey Larson is one busy detective. In a few weeks he will be marrying Jennifer Wainthrop and he has been assigned to the investigation of the murder of a famous Maine author. As Harvey and his partner Eddie Thibodeau work to solve Martin Blake’s murder they become involved in a second death involving a possible drowning and this in turns leads to another case that is 35 years old and still unsolved. What follows is an action-filled story filled with suspense and unusual circumstances involving the Priority Unit.
Fort Point is the second book in the Maine Justice series and Susan Page Davis offers her memorable characters some very intriguing situations as they work “to serve up justice”. This book also allows the lovely romance between Harvey and Jennifer to advance to the next step. As their marriage approaches, they have pre-wedding counseling with their minister and they also try to avoid the temptations that their physical attraction presents. They truly are good Christian witnesses and it is refreshing to read a good, clean romance with two special people who love each other and also love God.
This was a very enjoyable book and I look forward to reading more in this Christian mystery series.
I was given a complimentary copy of this book and I voluntarily chose to review it. This is is my honest opinion.
Fort Point is the second book in the Maine Justice series. I described Priority Unit, the first book in the series, as an almost-perfect blend of Christian fiction, romance, and suspense. Fort Point has a different feel.
We’ve already seen Detective Harvey Larson and Jennifer Wainthrop fall in love and become Christians in Priority Unit. Fort Point (and, I assume, the later books in the series) are more suspense. The romance and the faith aspects are still there, but they definitely take second place to the suspense plot.
And the suspense is excellent. Fort Point is a police procedural mystery that begins with the discovery of the body of Maine’s most famous novelist. (Personally, I’ve read enough novels about people who write novels. Perhaps Davis has as well, given her novelist is the victim.)
Detective Larson is part of Maine’s Priority Unit, a special force, so is tasked with investigating the murder. But it’s not easy. The victim wasn’t just a novelist. He was also an investigative journalist, and Larson wonders if one of his investigations may have attracted attention from the wrong people. Soon a second body is discovered, and evidence that suggests corruption in high places …
I didn’t think the writing was as strong in Fort Point (although that could just be that it’s been about a year since I read Priority Unit, and I was so impressed by the three strands of the plot that I didn’t pay much attention to the writing). It wasn’t that the writing is poor. It’s more that it felt a little unpolished in comparison with Davis’s other books.
Overall, Fort Point is a solid suspense novel, but does have a different flavour than Priority Unit and Susan Page Davis’s earlier romantic suspense novels. If you’re looking for a lightweight romantic suspense novel, Fort Point isn’t what you’re looking for. But if you’re looking for a well-plotted police procedural suspense with plenty of twists and strong characters, Fort Point might be just what you are looking for.
Thanks to the author for providing a free ebook for review.
This book series totally was amazing. I loved the characters and found them to be believable and endearing. After finishing the first book in the series, I was a goner, and immediately would find the next kindle edition and download it. I could go on and on reading …and it caused me to look for everything i could find by this author.
3.5 stars
“‘M confronts TN – TN is defiant.'”
The last words written in dead man’s notebook, a very famous dead man, Martin Blake; a nationally recognized author and journalist whose remains have just washed ashore close to a busy highway bridge. On the scene by coincidence, shortly after a bystander discovers the body, is Priority Unit Detective Harvey Larson. Following the victim’s whereabouts the day that he was murdered prompts Harvey and his unit to investigate a class reunion at nearby Fort Point, where terse conversations between classmates seem to leave clues leading towards a decades-old cold case.
Jennifer Wainthrop is eagerly anticipating her upcoming nuptials; the prospect of marrying Harvey Larson, despite their difference in age, is a true blessing from a God that Harvey and Jennifer are just getting to know. As the stress over wedding arrangements escalates, along side Harvey’s high profile murder case, can they learn before they get married, how important it is to love selflessly, pray often, and communicate freely?
Enjoy this second installment in Susan Davis’ well plotted “Maine Justice” series with its steady cadence and likable characters.
I received a copy of this book from the author. The opinions stated are entirely my own.
Clean language, good characters
It was an OK read. I really never got to the point I couldn’t put it down and seemed to drag on.
Good characters that build a story line with a story that goes back some 30 years and bears on the solving of the current case bringing out secrets that were long hidden.