Murder By Sacrilege

The John Lloyd Branson Series, Book 5

By: D. R. Meredith

Narrated by: Michael Bowen

The preacher’s bride is a truck-stop waitress half his age with a reputation that horrifies his congregation and a free and easy way with the male membership. Still, no one expects Reverend David Hailey to stone his wife to death. But that isn’t the worst of Hailey’s acts. Substituting his wife’s body for the Virgin Mary in the nativity scene is a worse act of sacrilege than murder. With feelings at a fever pitch in the little Texas town of Canadian, John Lloyd Branson steps in to defend the reverend. But first he must learn why the preacher killed his wife, then he must persuade his legal clerk, Lydia Fairchild, that he is not deliberately throwing the case with his seemingly inept courtroom strategy.

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MURDER BY SACRILEGE

This is my favorite book about John Lloyd. Maybe because Im more used to how John and Lydia handles situations. The other books were good but I felt like you had to pay a lot of extra attention to keep up with everything. This one was not like that. A preacher has killed his wife. They had just got married. John takes on the case representing him. This book held my attention and was good. Michael Bowen does a great job narrating this book.

Depth of character development

Absolutely love this entire series. Would love one last book, to explain some of John Lloyd's backstory and to let Lydia graduate.