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This afternoon I finished a book by one of my favorite authors, but I cringed.  The ending didn't work!  But, I'm getting ahead of myself. A while back, Ann Gabhart published the first book in her Hidden Springs Mystery series, Murder at the Courthouse .  I enjoyed her foray into writing a mystery.  The second book in the series was published, Murder Comes by Mail , was again a fun read!  So, I looked forward to the third book in this series when I discovered it was set to come out this spring!   Murder No Accident followed right along with the main character, Michael. As the deputy sheriff in Hidden Springs, Michael has a pretty calm life--except the occasional murder.  There is his Aunt Lindy, the matriarch of the town, and the lawyer next door who is the grandfather of the girls he's loved since he was a kid.  The book can be read alone, but you get to know the characters over the course of the trilogy. In this third book, Murder No A...

In our house, the reader of mystery novels is my husband.  But, every once in a while, I do pick one up.  That was the case last week when I sat down to read Ann Gabhart's new novel, Murder at the Courthouse .  Ms. Gabhart's fiction novels are all written under the name Ann Gabhart.  In a new turn, she takes the name of A.H. Gabhart for this series of mysteries she has written.  I think it's a little funny, but I do understand.  I can imagine that it can be difficult at times for authors to break out of the genre mold when they have written one "type" of book for years.  "A.H. Gabhart" sounds a lot more like a mystery author's name (ie. PD James, GK Chesterton, PG Wodehouse). As I opened up this book, I knew from the first page why I have enjoyed Ms. Gabhart's books over the years.  She is one of the better Christian writers whose books I have reviewed. The plot of Murder at the Courthouse centers around a deputy sheriff, Michael Keane, and ...