In All Deep Places
by Susan Meissner
Published by Harvest House Publishers
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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
Luke Foxbourne is living the good life. He's left behind the Iowa of his youth and resides in a grand house in Connecticut. He's a successful mystery writer with a beautiful wife and two lovely young daughters.
But following his father's stroke, Luke returns to Iowa and to the memories of a young girl from a troubled home next door to his. It is in Iowa that Luke revisits his first kiss with Norah and all the drama that preceded it. It is there that his writer's block lifts as he tells his story and that of Norah. But the end can't be known until he learns just what the ending was for Norah.
Can we really go home? Perhaps a better question is, where is home? Luke's story is about finding the home with God that was always there and offering that gift to someone else.
In All Deep Places, Susan Meissner has once again skillfully examined the basic truth of what it is to be alive in the world, with all the good and all the bad that is there. But she doesn't leave it at that. She gently reminds us that it is God's grace and love that will see us through the night.
Meissner's plots are full-bodied and compelling and her characters are multi-dimensional people that seem so real, you forget you're reading fiction.
Armchair Interviews says: Meissner's books are must-reads. Their beautiful messages are yours there for the taking. What a gift to her readers!