Steven James

Dear Readers.

It is with a heavy heart that I report that the last Patrick Bower book has been released.  The Queen is the end of a wonderful series, at least for now.  I am hoping that the public outcry is so large that he will be forced to continue the series. 

The Patrick Bower series crashed onto the Christian fiction market with very little warning.  It kind of set the suspense/thriller genre on its ear.  It also turned non-fiction readers into fiction readers.  It filled a niche that I had so been looking for in my store. 

The Queen is a bit different than the other 4 in the series.  Where they had more creep factor, this one reads closer to a Tom Clancy than a Don Koontz.  This is not a bad thing and I don't write it to talk you out of reading it, but it is true.  Of course you want to read this one to find out what happens to our favorite character, Raven.

Patrick is called to Wisconsin for a missing ex Navy man.  The man's wife and daughter are found killed and he is no where to be found.  The local police force assumes that he is guilty of the crime and is now on the run.  The problem with that theory is that the evidence doesn't add up. 

Patrick needs to figure out where the clues are leading him, while worring about Basque who seems to have followed him to Wisconsin.  Will we finally get to meet Basque?  I am not telling.

I hate to see Patrick go, he quickly became a favorite character. He is willing to ask the tough questions and he is willing to hear answers he wasn't always sure he wanted to know.  He didn't take something as truth just because he was told it, but yet he did trust those he loved.  He is just one of those guys that we all wished we had on our side.   Like I said earlier, I will just have to wait and see if Steven changes his mind and adds more books to this series, but in the mean time I will have to be content talking about this series and getting new converts to fiction.

Happy Reading