Tom Hilpert
Autor(a) de Superior Justice
About the Author
Séries
Obras por Tom Hilpert
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1969
- Sexo
- male
- País (no mapa)
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Papua New Guinea
Lebanon, Tennessee, USA - Educação
- Oregon State University (BS|Speech Communication)
American Lutheran Theological Seminary (MDiv)
Lutheran Bible Institute - Relações
- Hilpert, Kari (wife)
Membros
Críticas
Superior Justice por Tom Hilpert
The main character is fun enough, but the story gets wilder and wilder as it continues, leaving potentially quite a few loose ends on its way. While there have been plenty of religious figures sleuthing about, this one appears a rather fantastically romantic figure with a lot of spare time on his hand.
A small town pastor gets in over his head. The pastor convinces an elderly widow who is his parishoner to let him take her savings to a bank. He's at the bank, but before he can deposit her money, robbers take it. Feeling guilty about losing her life savings, he vows to support her until he can get it back for her.
Somehow, he also gets conned into offering a marriage counseling cruise on Lake Superior. Shouldn't the badly, and freshly painted boat name have clued him in that something wasn't quite kosher?
Once the plot got going, it was very compelling and hard to put down. You might get a bit more out of the book if you know about sailing--I do not, and it did not impede reading the book, but there are parts where they're sailing that may have made the plot more intense if you know what's really going on.
I would read additional books in the series and other books by this author.… (mais)
Somehow, he also gets conned into offering a marriage counseling cruise on Lake Superior. Shouldn't the badly, and freshly painted boat name have clued him in that something wasn't quite kosher?
Once the plot got going, it was very compelling and hard to put down. You might get a bit more out of the book if you know about sailing--I do not, and it did not impede reading the book, but there are parts where they're sailing that may have made the plot more intense if you know what's really going on.
I would read additional books in the series and other books by this author.… (mais)
DNF 26%
C-a-ts, winks, and gawd. This book'n'me're done.
Modestly successful writing, hugely silly and open foreshadowing, just about nothing makes me want to continue.
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C-a-ts, winks, and gawd. This book'n'me're done.
Modestly successful writing, hugely silly and open foreshadowing, just about nothing makes me want to continue.
3 likes
THE CONFESSION THAT COULD KILL HIM...
Jonah Borden is a tough-guy, thinks-he's-funny, rock-music-playing, gourmet-cooking, painfully-moderate-drinking, hard-boiled man of the cloth – yes, he is a pastor in the Lutheran Church. He expresses his own beliefs clearly and obviously makes an impression on his flock of Scandinavian Lutherans.
He is also a man with a past that only becomes clear as the book progresses, but that past influences his attitude towards one of his flock who is accused of a vigilante killing. As Jonah tries to prove that man’s innocence he uncovers a twisted series of murders and cover ups. Before it is all over, Borden himself has been bribed, beaten, shot, and arrested for murder.
The book is set in the midst of the striking beauty of Minnesota's Lake Superior Coastline. I read it in less than three days which is saying something for me. At first I wasn’t sure whether or not it was for me, but Tom Hilpert drew me into the story and I became quite reluctant to do other things rather than read.
The book has pace, some quirky and interesting characters and what turns out to be a very involved storyline, but one which the author deals with in a very satisfactory manner. As the first of a series, I am very much interested in carrying on the series – oh, and I think that I fell in love with Leyla as well! Both she and Jonah share a sense of humour that appeals to me, if not to some of the characters in the book!
… (mais)
Jonah Borden is a tough-guy, thinks-he's-funny, rock-music-playing, gourmet-cooking, painfully-moderate-drinking, hard-boiled man of the cloth – yes, he is a pastor in the Lutheran Church. He expresses his own beliefs clearly and obviously makes an impression on his flock of Scandinavian Lutherans.
He is also a man with a past that only becomes clear as the book progresses, but that past influences his attitude towards one of his flock who is accused of a vigilante killing. As Jonah tries to prove that man’s innocence he uncovers a twisted series of murders and cover ups. Before it is all over, Borden himself has been bribed, beaten, shot, and arrested for murder.
The book is set in the midst of the striking beauty of Minnesota's Lake Superior Coastline. I read it in less than three days which is saying something for me. At first I wasn’t sure whether or not it was for me, but Tom Hilpert drew me into the story and I became quite reluctant to do other things rather than read.
The book has pace, some quirky and interesting characters and what turns out to be a very involved storyline, but one which the author deals with in a very satisfactory manner. As the first of a series, I am very much interested in carrying on the series – oh, and I think that I fell in love with Leyla as well! Both she and Jonah share a sense of humour that appeals to me, if not to some of the characters in the book!
… (mais)
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 124
- Popularidade
- #161,165
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 7
- ISBN
- 4