Christy Award Nominees Book Giveaway: Part 2, Suspense Category

  The Christy Award is a "Christian fiction award to recognize novelists and novels of excellence in several genres of Christian fiction." The nominees for this year were announced recently and the winners announced June 26. Every year I make it my goal to read all the books that are nominated for the Christy Award.  I also give them away!

This year I will not give them away all at once, but by category while I am reading the books nominated in that category.

To enter to win any/all of these books, please do the following:

1. Post a comment indicating which book/books you would like to be entered for. And answer this question, do you like edgy suspense, romantic suspense, or who-done-its best?  I like them all!

2. Enter by the date indicated. For this category, please enter by JUNE 17, winners announced on June 18.

3. Respond within 10 days should you receive an email indicating you have won a particular book.

4. Come back soon for the next category giveaway! 

These are books nominated in the "Suspense" category.

The books nominated in this category are:

Intervention by Terri Blackstock

Description:

Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment—and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen—Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.

My Thoughts:

As always, Blackstock weaves a wonderful tale and keeps the reader's interest on every page.  As a parent, I kept picturing myself in the mother's place.  Yikes!  A thrilling book from a wonderful author.

Next book: Lost Mission by Athol Dickinson

Description

Buried beneath the poverty-stricken barrios and wealthy enclaves of Southern California, a Spanish mission is uncovered during a construction project---along with evidence of a crime. When four people begin work on unraveling the mystery, they each face a moral dilemma. Will their choices perpetuate the very crime that doomed the mission hundreds of years before?

My Thoughts: I'm reading it right now!  Seems very good!  Will let you know soon!

 

Third Book: The Night Watchman by Mark Mynheir

Description:

Eleven months ago, Ray Quinn was a tough, quick-witted Orlando homicide detective at the top of his game-until a barrage of bullets ended his career.and his partner's life. Now medically retired with a painful handicap, Ray battles the haunting guilt for his partner's death. Numbing the pain with alcohol and attitude, Ray takes a job as a night watchman at a swanky Orlando condo. But when a pastor and an exotic dancer are found dead in one of the condos in an apparent murder-suicide, Ray can no longer linger in the shadows.

My Thoughts:

I enjoyed this book very much! Ray is a gruff likeable character. I enjoyed watching his character emerge out of a dark and difficult place and begin to express interest in people and projects again. I'm hoping this is part of a series so we'll get to see more of Ray!