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Blake, a poet who has a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School, writes cool and sparkling prose that gives her first mystery an unusual depth. As the church struggles with issues of sexuality, her clerics and parishioners mirror that struggle. Did the late Father Barnes kill himself with an overdose of insulin because of his feelings toward the 16-year-old son of one of the congregation's richest members? That's one possibility; even worse is the chance that Father Barnes was murdered because of someone else's sins. Equally riveting is Lily's growing dilemma: what to do with the potential scandal that she has unearthed. "Back at her desk, she thought of the ways in which her life and vocation had always been so clear to her, the terrain mapped miles into the future--mountains and plains, good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, faith, friendship. Now she groped down a dim corridor, feeling her way inch by inch, barely able to tell where she stood at that instant, much less where anyone else stood, much less where she was headed."
It's this quality of enriched uncertainty that bonds us with Lily, regardless of our own beliefs, and makes this such a promising debut. --Dick Adler
'Lily is the most sympathetic heroine I've met in a long time, incredibly smart, literate, funny and sexy - as well as [sometimes] insecure. And the church politics are so absorbing in their complexity, Trollopian in their wit. A terrific debut" -Alice Adams
" The Tentmaker deftly explores a shadow world where nothing is quite as it seems. A well-crafted, haunting story." -Margaret Coel
"A wonderfully complex and interesting heroine, in a well-written, thoughtful novel." -Nancy Pickard
"Like Father Andrew Greeley, Michelle Blake manages not only to pull us into a good twisting mystery, but into the fascinating tensions and politics of a troubled congregation. She wields a fine double-edged sword." -Craig Holden
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