BOOK REVIEW: A Mile From Sunday 

 

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by: Barbara Warren

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Title: A Mile From Sunday

Author: Jo Kadlecek

Publisher: NavPress

ISBN 1-60006-028-5

Genre: Inspirational/Mystery

 

Jonna Lightfoot McLaughlin is the Dispatch’s number one religious reporter. She covers the usual potlucks and conventions, but somehow something seems to be missing. Then she starts getting phone calls from God. Except the caller sounds more and more like a crackpot. His message always centers around what a terrible place the world has become because humans have deteriorated into self-centered leeches. Jonna figures there is some truth in that, but she doesn’t understand why God would need her help.

 

Then the Mile High Zen Buddhist Cultural Center burns. She starts getting phone calls from a man named Jedediah  Sundae, who apparently doesn’t exist. Her brother is trying to play matchmaker, and she has a strong suspicion the head of the Into the Fields Fellowship is a religious phony and a dangerous crook. Suddenly Jonna’s life has more excitement than one girl deserves.

 

A Mile From Sunday is a fast paced, witty, suspenseful tale of the world of cults. Jo Kadlecek drives home the point that not all members of the flock are spiritual sheep. Some are ravening wolves. This is the first book in the Lightfoot trilogy. I’m looking forward to the next one.