Restoreth My Soul (Psalm 23 Mysteries)

It has been a while since I last read a book in this excellent series. Normally, I'm a cozy genre reader, these novels are more in the thriller, yet still retain elements of a cozy. They are certainly filled with action scenes that have the ability to make you, the reader, gasp aloud. Tears are not unknown as well as heros are made and lost.This novel had me entranced. I opened the first page and instantly I remembered all the main characters, remembered their last adventures and was back in the story line. I was Not disappointed in the least. This book opened with the reason for the title and that gripped my attention. Also, I'm a fan of Detective Mark, Christian church secretary, Cindy, and Rabbi Jeremiah Sullivan. I wanted to know how they were each coping after the dramatic ending in the fourth episode.This book revolves around the thefts of fine art during the Nazi days. A surprise find from Russia will shock you. Of course this book is fiction, however, the plausibility of the story was very fulfilling.Detective Mark is back on the job minus his deceased partner, Paul. He is wounded but is introduced to a new officer, Liam. Cindy is soldiering on, or is she? Finally, the Rabbi, still trying to withhold his past from everyone but glimmers are peeking out.I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and have purchased book six. I'm never disappointed in this series by the talented Author, Debbie Viguie. Discover this series and you will be hooked.

Detective Mark Walters is reluctant to involve Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman in another case, but he has no choice when a body is found in a home where the walls are filled with Hebrew writing. Mark needs the Hebrew translated immediately in hopes of discovering who may have killed the man who apparently, as he was dying, wrote one last word on the wall, "restoration".Jeremiah is reluctant to become involved in the case because when he arrives at the scene he realizes he knows the dead man. A man who approached him months before wishing to speak to him, but never kept his appointment with Jeremiah. Plus this is the beginning of one of the busiest times of year for the Rabbi.Both Mark and Jeremiah wish to keep Cindy out of the mix of this case as well, but unfortunately the stakes are high for the killer and Cindy is reluctantly drug into the whole mess as well. Cindy thinks that she has recovered from her ordeal in Hawaii, but when the stress of the case and stress at work between the pastor and the music minister become too much Cindy realizes just how fragile she is.This is book 5 in the Psalm 23 Mysteries and Jeremiah's past is still a mystery. I'm enjoying each installment, but am ready for Jeremiah's secret to be revealed. He almost spilled it to Cindy when he was on some pain meds this time around, but to his great relief he didn't. He is also beginning to have feelings for Cindy that he is trying to deny. Well, actually they are both trying to deny their attraction to each other which really is complicated. Jeremiah's a Rabbi and Cindy is a secretary at a Presbyterian church, how can they work that out? I'm seriously hooked on this series and keep telling myself that each one I read will be my last for a while, but once I finish one I find myself going and buying the next! Once again if you are a fan of mysteries, suspense and a bit of romance check this series out, you won't be disappointed!

This fifth mystery episode featuring church secretary, Cindy, Rabbi Jeremiah, and policeman Mark takes place just before the Jewish New Year & Restoration season. With only two days before Rosh Hashanah, Mark needs Jeremiah to translate a room full of Hebrew words written on a murdered man's wall. The dead man also wrote one word in blood during his dying moments--"restoration".Things become dangerous for everyone involved when people start stalking our main characters, and extremely expensive stolen art work, stolen during WW2, becomes the center of this mystery. No one is whom they seem to be, and knowing whom to trust could be the difference between life or death. Also, the curiously complicated relationship between Cindy and Jeremiah becomes more evident to everyone. Jeremiah has a secret past that is revealed more and more with every book.I have really been enjoying these Psalm 23 mysteries. I sure hope Debbie Viguie has many more installments to follow!

I've read all of the Psalm 23 Mysteries (HIGHLY recommend that you read them in order. While some things aren't too believable, they are not out of the question. I don't read to find a literary masterpiece. I want a good story. I don't appreciate a lot of graphic sex or violence, don't want to stay awake worried about graphic stalking and so forth but I want a mystery I can't always figure out, characters I can identify with and action that keeps me drawn in. All of the Psalm 23 mysteries have done that and more. I am a Believer so Christian based books are something that I find extra enjoyment in reading.There is a little romance, some mystery and intrigue and genuinely interesting and likable characters in these books. (OK, so I've touched on the whole series not just this book.)

I love these books and I enjoyed the person of interest mention. Please please please don't quit writing. As a Christian u know that the world is full of sick people who have never known the real love of God. They have hate, bitterness, and judgmentalness in their hearts and want to share those negative traits with everyone they can. A lot of these people are members of a church. That being said, I use those comments as building blocks, not not stumbling blocks. When someone one ask me to judge all I say to them is, I'm Lutheran we don't judge, or. insert your own religion. I can tell by your writing that you belong to a non judging faith. U R a good writer, I do get lost in your stories and am in the book with them, it's fiction and I need the escape you give that to me without all the over sex junk. Time place for everything.