Vengeance Is Mine

Name: Vengeance Is Mine
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Joanne Fluke
ISBN: 9781490661766

Author: Joanne Fluke

Narrator: Linda Stephens

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/24/2015

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

A KILLER IN THE DEAD OF WINTER. As a family clinic administrator, Michele Layton has seen her share of suffering. But never anything like this. Not here in St. Cloud, Minnesota. A local activist has been found murdered, his body frozen like a statue and placed in a Winter Carnival ice sculpture display. Next a vicious hate crime puts a man in the ICU. And locked away in the Holy Rest mental ward, a deranged man of the cloth prays for more sinners to be punished-and waits for a sign from above. These seemingly random acts lead police chief Steve Radke to Michele, who could be the next pawn in a madman's chess game of life and death, good versus evil.

About Joanne Fluke

American author Joanne Fluke has written several works using pen names. Her given, actual name, is Joanne Gibson Fischmann, born in 1943 in Swanvile, Minnesota. Under pen name, Joanne Fluke, she is most recognized for her mystery series, Hannah Swensen, based around a small town bakery. Five Hallmark Channel movies have been made from Fluke's Swensen series. She has written under the other pseudonyms of John Fischer, R. J. Fischer, Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter, Gina Jackson and Kathryn Kirkwood.

Fluke attended St. Cloud State University, and earned a B.A. Degree in psychology in 1973 from California State University. She had several second jobs while she worked at building her writing career, but her most important titles were mother, wife and homemaker. She lives in Southern California with her television writer husband, Ruel E. Fischmann, her children and step-children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judah on April 26, 2020

Gay-bashing, waterbeds, no-big-deal gang rape, obsessive calorie counting, incest with no mandatory reporting, a marriage proposal won with home cooking and sex, the Catholic church hiding its criminally insane in a small and unsuspecting town – so, so many bad things from the 80’s all in one place.......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on March 13, 2023

While at the Aransas County Public Library, I checked out the large print edition of Vengeance is Mine by Joanne Fluke. I had read a humorous series by Joanne before and this one looked interesting. This book was set in a maximum security rest home for Catholic clergy who were no longer fit to serve......more

Goodreads review by Dianne on August 13, 2023

This was a disappointment of a read. I have enjoyed the Hannah Swensen Mysteries. Michelle Layton is a family planning clinic administrator who is inexplicably involved in a series of murders in St. Cloud, MN. I enjoyed the slice of life of the 80s, but the author should have stuck to a football the......more

Goodreads review by Teresa Byrd on April 05, 2018

Enjoyed the story however it was annoying that the "scenes" ran into each other like run on sentences . Not use to that style and felt it took away from the reading experience . Will read this author again hoping the style differs......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on November 02, 2020

Couldn't finish this one. The vast array of characters and constantly shifting POV made it annoyingly difficult to get into. As to genre, is it a thriller? a romance? a mystery? If the author isn't sure, how can the reader decide?......more