In the Bleak Midwinter

I just finished reading In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Fleming.

I read a ton of these books. I am always on the lookout for a new author and/or character to consume wildly.

I really enjoyed this book. Great characters.

The main characters, the protagonists, are a small town police chief and a female priest.

...and she is a hot, fit, ass-kicking, former military, attack helicopter pilot, blond in a priests collar.

Yes, this strangely aroused me too.

Plus it takes place in upstate NY during the winter. I can totally relate have grown up just outside of Buffalo!

"It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. However, her blunt manner, honed by years as an army pilot, is meeting with a chilly reception from some members of her congregation and Chief of Police Russ Van Alystyne, in particular, doesn't know what to make of her, or how to address "a lady priest" for that matter.

The last thing she needs is trouble, but that is exactly what she finds. When a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs and a young mother is brutally murdered, Clare has to pick her way through the secrets and silence that shadow that town like the ever-present Adirondack mountains. As the days dwindle down and the attraction between the avowed priest and the married police chief grows, Clare will need all her faith, tenacity, and courage to stand fast against a killer's icy heart."

Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series

• In the Bleak Midwinter (2002, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-98676-6, paperback 978-0-312-98676-6)
• A Fountain Filled With Blood (2003, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-99543-0, paperback 978-0-312-99543-0)
• Out of the Deep I Cry (2004, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-31262-6, paperback ISBN 978-0-312-98888-3)
• To Darkness and To Death (2005, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-33485-7, paperback ISBN 978-0-312-98887-6)
• All Mortal Flesh (2006, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-31264-0, paperback 978-0-312-93398-2)
• I Shall Not Want (2008, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-33487-1)
• One Was A Soldier (2011, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-33489-5)

 --I will read them all now...