The Bookish Island: Sister Eve, Private Eye by Lynne Hinton

6/28/2018

Sister Eve, Private Eye by Lynne Hinton | Book Review #110

The Bookish Island's Book Review:
Sister Eve, Private Eye by Lynne Hinton

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Title: Sister Eve, Private Eye

Author: Lynne Hinton

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Pages: 336

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2014

Genre: Mystery, Fiction, Christian Fiction

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Date Read: June 21, 2018

Rating: ★★★1/2

Sister Eve knows God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery. Especially a murder.
Two decades into her calling at a New Mexico monastery, Sister Evangeline Divine breaks her daily routine when a police officer appears, carrying a message from her father. Sister Eve is no stranger to the law, having grown up with a police captain turned private detective. She's seen her fair share of crime--and knows a thing or two about solving mysteries.
But when Captain Jackson Divine needs her to return home and help him recover from surgery, Sister Eve finds herself taking on his latest case.
A Hollywood director has disappeared, and the sultry starlet he's been running around with isn't talking. When the missing man turns up dead, Captain Divine's case escalates into a full-blown murder case, and Sister Eve's crime-solving instincts kick in with an almost God-given grace.
Soon Sister Eve finds herself soul-searching every step of the way: How can she choose between the vocation in her heart and the job in her blood?

The Rating:

My Review:

I loved the concept of a nun struggling between her vocation as a nun and taking care of, and working alongside her father who she barely knows.

The case was interesting. It had Hollywood producers, actresses, directors, and scriptwriters as suspects and victims. With the setting of Madrid as the place where they would film their movies, it had a nice connection.

It was actually a good mystery. But I didn't expect the resolution.

I didn't like the ending. Not only did it feel like it was lacking but it felt rushed.

The characters were great.
The mystery was great.
But the ending gets a big meh, our of me.

I couldn't decide whether to give it 3.5 or 4 stars. Just because the main characters relationship with her father and the people around her were well written and I felt like I knew them at the end. Just because of that it saved this reading experience for me.