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BOOK OF LIGHT, THE: A Lily Connor Mystery
by Michelle Blake
Putnam, May 2003
$24.95
ISBN: 0399150463


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Lily Connor was born and raised Catholic, but left that patriarchal church for the Episcopalians where she could be ordained as a priest. The first in the series, THE TENTMAKER, explained her idea of being something of a roving priest, taking temporary assignments in the Boston area while working at a shelter for women.

In THE BOOK OF LIGHT, she takes a very transient position as a Chaplain at Tate University. Here she runs into an older woman who was a student with Lily and her friend, Charles, in the seminary. Lily considered them to be acquaintances rather than friends, but Professor Samantha Henderson has a different perspective.

Samantha, out of a disastrous and abusive marriage to another Biblical scholar at Oxford, is now teaching religion at Tate. She asks Lily for help with a current perplexing problem. Her assistant, Francine, has been getting pictures of a scroll which just might be the missing Q documents which man experts believe Matthew and Luke used as the source material for their Gospels.

How could these scrolls be in such good condition after almost two thousand years and why haven't they been discovered by the world? When strange men begin following the three women, Lily brings her lover, police photographer, Tom into the picture. In turn, he hires a former police woman turned private investigator, Marty. Marty is a character that I hope reappears in Blake's novels.

This is an exciting tale of conspiracy, obsession and spirituality. Lily is drawn to the pictures because of what the scrolls might contain. She also continues to fight her own personal battle with her faith and with the bottle. Burglaries, vandalism, kidnapping and, perhaps murder, make these scrolls to be a very dangerous commodity.

THE BOOK OF LIGHT is an engrossing novel and is certain to make the reader want to find out more about Q. This is also one of a fast growing subgenre of the mystery field...women amateur sleuths in Roman collars.

A very good entry in an always interesting series.

Reviewed by Doris Ann Norris, May 2003

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