Eleven years ago, Vera Gambles brother left their house never to be seen again. Until the day Vera gets a phone call that his body has been found, washed ashore in the tiny island town of Winter Haven, Maine. His only surviving kin, Vera travels north to claim the body, and finds herself tumbling into a tangled mystery. Her brother has not aged a day since last she saw him.
Determined to uncover what happened in those lost years, Vera soon discovers there are other secrets lurking in this isolated town. But Winter Havens murky past now seems bound to come to light as one woman seeks the undeniable and flooding light of truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Tim George (Pensacola, FL), June 19, 2009
Athol Dickson scores another knockout with Winter Haven. Simply put, Dickson produces the best prose in all of Chritian fiction.
Winter Haven, told in the first person by its heroine Vera, answers one great question; is it wrong to ask God why? When we meet Vera she has retreaed into an orderly world of numbers as an accountant. There she finds refuge from her tortured past as the daughter of a faith healer who could not heal his own family. But a call revealing the discovery of her long lost Savant brother changes everything.
As in River Rising, Dickson manages to drag us along with Vera into a totally foreign world. In that world we are no more sure than Vera whether she is loosing her mind, being judged by God, or on the verge of making sense out of a once unanswerable question.
Like all of Dickson's books this is one to savor like a good steak rather than race through like fast food.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Donald Sawyer (Kansas), March 13, 2009
The book was suspenseful, the story flowed, the information about the Vikings was very interesting. I felt like I was in the book experiencing it with the characters. I couldn't put the book down and spent every minute reading. It was a very good book with an excellent ending. Now I want to visit the island.
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