In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming: A review
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming My rating: 3 of 5 stars In the Bleak Midwinter has been classified as a mystery. If I were doing the classification, I would call it a romance. True, there is a mystery involved, but the main focus of the story seems to be the burgeoning, if forbidden, romance between Clare Fergusson, the new priest at St. Albans Episcopal Church in the Adirondacks, and the local (married) sheriff, Russ Van Alstyne, who is an unbeliever. First, we have the mismatched couple meeting cute - sort of - over a newborn infant that has been left at the door of St. Albans in the midst of a very cold winter night. There seems to be an almost instant attraction between the two, although, obviously, neither of them can admit it, but, over the next few days, they keep inventing excuses to meet and to be together. Meantime, the sheriff's wife of sixteen years, whom we never meet, is conveniently absent on business. She runs a custom curtain and drapery-making bu...