Whispers of the Bayou
by Mindy Starns Clark
Published by Harvest House Publishers
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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
Miranda Miller hasn’t seen her childhood home in the Louisiana bayou country since she was sent to live with her aunt in New York at the age of five. Her history is completely unknown to her and her remembrance of her early years is non-existent. It’s as if she didn’t exist for the first five years of her life.
Miranda currently lives in New York with her husband and five-year-old daughter. She’s passionate about her career in a Manhattan museum, but is stumbling along in her marriage. Her husband mourns her aloof nature, and Miranda is unable to break down the protective walls. She chalks it up to a personality trait. But in the recesses of her mind, she knows her behavior has other origins.
Willy Pedreaux is a man from Miranda’s past. He’s dying and insistent that Miranda return to Louisiana to receive some important information about her past–and following his death, to receive her inheritance that includes the family mansion.
Willy dies before he can give Miranda all the information she needs to understand what happened to her and her family so many years ago. But Miranda’s need for the truth conquers her fear of ‘knowing’ and she follows the clues that will unearth dark family secrets involving deaths, a valuable treasure, and enemies she didn’t know existed.
Whispers of the Bayou sizzles! The Louisiana setting, the myths, treasure, murders and mayhem make for a wonderful story that won’t be set aside. The pages keep turning long into the night and when the last page is read, you will want more. While this is from a Christian publisher, it’s really a crossover book. Christianity and the relationship with Christ is something dealt with at the very end of the book.
Armchair Interviews says: Whispers of the Bayou is worth the read.
Author’s Web site: http://www.MindyStarnsClark.com