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    The Maligned Marine: The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, #2
    The Maligned Marine: The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, #2
    The Maligned Marine: The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, #2
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    The Maligned Marine: The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, #2

    By J. R. Mathis and Susan Mathis

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    Enjoy this Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple

     

    As a Catholic Priest in a small town, I get along with most of the other clergy in Myerton . . . with one exception.

     

    The Reverend Dexter Huckleberry. Lord help me, I just do not like the man. He gives all of us a bad name. He is a demagogue of the worst kind, wrapping himself in God's word while targeting people because of who they are, how they live, and even where they worship.

     

    He never calls me Father, for example. But I don't take it personally.

     

    And now, he's targeting Steve Austin and the Hoot-n-Holler as a din of iniquity, calling it a 'gay bar' and a gathering place for perverts.

     

    Considering I go there regularly, I take that a little personally . . .

     

    But now he's been murdered, and a friend and fellow vet of Steve's stands accused . . .

     

    . . . and the fallout from that is something I haven't seen coming.

     

    The Reverend Dexter Huckleberry's murder seems open and shut to me . . .

     

    A witness places Steve Austin's friend at his office around the time of the murder. A troubled ex-Marine, he has both the strength and the skill to kill a man. Not only that, he was apparently the last person to see him alive.

     

    But my detective doesn't believe he's guilty. The doctor who saved my life is shielding him from me. Steve's angry with me for placing his friend under arrest. Even Tom's questioning me.

     

    Not only this, but the Mayor's breathing down my neck to make sure this case is closed quickly. I even got a call from the Governor's office!

     

    This case is giving me a huge headache.

     

    And there is another problem . . . 

     

    . . . my gut's telling me I'm wrong.

     

    The Maligned Marine is the second novel in the Mercy and Justice Mystery series, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to the Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMercy and Justice Mysteries
    Release dateMar 8, 2022
    ISBN9798201029838
    The Maligned Marine: The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, #2
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    J. R. Mathis

    Susan Mathis was born in and grew up in an extremely small town in Alachua County, Florida where her family has lived for more than 100 years. When Susan was still very young, James (J.R) Mathis was born in a somewhat bigger small town about 100 miles south of where she lived. Within a decade, James' small town would become part of Orlando, the biggest tourist destination in the United States. He was not amused. That is how, while Susan was running barefoot, swimming in lakes full of alligators and feeding chickens, James was sitting in his bedroom reading books faster than his father could bring them home from the library. Were James and Susan to write their love story, it would definitely be an enemies-to-lovers trope. They met in the library where he was working. He found her demands for books that he had to pull and bring to her so unreasonable that he actually turned her into the head librarian. She in turn was so anxious to drive him away that when some friends secretly set them up she laid out an entire speech about how miserable her life was (she is typically very upbeat). Little did she suspect that he had a passionate attraction to misery and they were married just over a year later. Fast forward 26 years, three children, four grandchildren and 20 years of James working for the Federal government. He was diagnosed with a highly treatable but still very scary form of cancer. As so often happens, this brush with mortality inspired him to do something he’d always wanted to do, write a novel. After the publication of the second Father Tom Mystery, Susan joined him as coauthor. As far as the Mathises are concerned, writing together is the most fun a couple can have sitting at a computer.

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