Legal thrillers are one of my favorite genres of fiction. I love such authors as John Grisham and Randy Singer. Last summer, I was introduced to a new author in this genre, Lis Wiehl. But Wiehl takes a different spin, at least in the two books I’ve read so far.

Wiehl has introduced Mia Quinn, a prosecuting attorney who struggles with several major life issues. She balances her legal career as a prosecutor, with a second job teaching at a night school, grieves over her dead husband, and tries to raise her children on her own. Trying to do all of this under her own power is difficult to say the least, but she refuses to allow God a foothold into her life… At least not yet.

In this second novel featuring Mia Quinn, A Deadly Business, Wiehl weaves a thick plot that includes Quinn struggling with ethical considerations in one of her cases, seeking the truth behind her husband’s death, and how compassion plays out in her own personal life.

Just like A Matter Of Trust, the first Mia Quinn novel, A Deadly Business brings the reader right in to the middle of the action, as well as into the minds of the characters. As you read, you can almost feel the weight of the struggles that Quinn faces, and you begin to empathize with her as she seeks to do what is right in spite of pressures from work and home.

Perhaps the best part of the entire experience is that Wiehl doesn’t try to shove God down the throat of her main characters, or her readers. There’s just enough balance to help you realize that Quinn is seeking, even though she doesn’t yet realize it herself. But not so much that the entire novel seems to force you to see God in every paragraph. Wiehl has struck the right balance here, and works it into the story quite well.

With an unexpected plot twist at the end that will have you on the edge of your seat, A Deadly Business is a page turner that you won’t be able to put down. When you add the fact that it lacks the usual vulgarity and profanity of most mainstream authors of this type, you finish with an excellent feeling, and are ready for the next installment of the Mia Quinn saga.

Too bad it’s not available yet. I’m ready for more. Until then, I’ll have to satisfy my urges with some of Wiehl’s other work, and wait for Mia Quinn to return.

If you enjoy reading legal fiction, I highly recommend that you try Lis Wiehl, if you haven’t already. You’ll be impressed.

I was.

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