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The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, Books 1-3: The Father Tom/Mercy and Justice Mysteries Boxsets, #5
The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, Books 1-3: The Father Tom/Mercy and Justice Mysteries Boxsets, #5
The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, Books 1-3: The Father Tom/Mercy and Justice Mysteries Boxsets, #5
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Enjoy These Contemporary Small Town Mysteries Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple.

 

This is a collection of books 1-3 in The Mercy and Justice Mysteries. This series is a sequel to The Father Tom Mysteries Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer and his wife Chief of Police Helen Parr Greer, a sleuthing couple committed to the pursuit of justice tempered with mercy while solving mysteries old and new.

 

The Honeymoon Homicide (Book 1):  The murder of the deacon of Saint Clare's Catholic Church interrupts the honeymoon plans of Father Tom Greer and his new wife, Chief of Police Helen Parr Greer.

 

The Maligned Marine (Book 2): When a controversial minister is found beaten to death in his office, suspicion falls on an ex-Marine friend of Steve Austin who had a run-in with him days before.


The Sister's Secret (Book 3): A daring daylight robbery at the annual luncheon of the Myerton Historical Society puts Helen and her chief detective Dan Conway on the trail of a gang of thieves. Meanwhile, Father Tom's concerned about the odd behavior of Sister Maria.

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Release dateJun 29, 2023
ISBN9798223434597
The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, Books 1-3: The Father Tom/Mercy and Justice Mysteries Boxsets, #5
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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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