Review: At Midnight Comes the Cry

By Julia Spencer-Fleming 

After a long wait, we finally have the next installation in the saga of Russ Van Alstyne and the Reverend Clare Fergusson. And of course, Kevin, Hadley Knox, and some new characters to flesh out the story. It was worth the wait.  The author takes on white supremacist and anti-semitic hate groups, and does a decent job of making the people in the groups look and act just like any other people you might meet on the street. Or at work or in stores.

She seemed to cut the continuity a little thin at times, but not objectionably
so. For instance, one minute Russ is deciding he needs to do an airplane surveillance of the militia camp, and next minute there’s a plane in the air.  No necessary detail was omitted, but the story could have been fleshed out a little more.

But as usual, the action scenes are gripping and realistic. Loved that.  And the people, too. I hope there’s another one coming.