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"Murder in the Pulpit. " by Bert Brun
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ISBN 978-1-60264-582-0, $13.95, 212 pages.
Church pandemonium, as congregants begin to drop like flies, after drinking arsenic-laced coffee just after the liberal Unitarian church Sunday morning service. Four later die, including Alicia Holmes, a visiting minister. Riverton, Alabama's new Police Chief and church member, Donald Ginsburg, has just witnessed the whole ugly scene. He's already deemed suspicious to many in the Bible belt town, as the bi-racial grandson of Riverto's black activist Eulah Jefferson, and the son of a New York Jewish university philosophy professor, Ginsberg has barely beaten out police Lieutenant Rudy Woolard, the acting white Chief (whose loyalty may be questionable) for the job. A sarcastic local newspaperman doesn't make Ginsberg's job easier.Widower Ginsberg is being hotly pursued by local amorous gospel singer Amanda Jackson, while secretly harboring a yen for an exotic Eurasian nurse who attends the church. Fourteen-year old son Alonso is the victim of the school bully, further complicating the cop's life. Searching for a motive, and after wading through various church longtime grudge holders, Ginsberg winds up with a prime suspect, a disgruntled Lesbian who's fearful that her minister partner might find a new love in this new church setting; money may play a motivating role, too.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bert Brun was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on Saten Island. After receiving a B.S. and M.S. at colleges in New York, he lived all over, including New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Washington state, North Carolina, and Alabama, working as a travel counselor, teacher, hospital administrator, oceanographer, estuarine biologist, etc. He also lived abroad in Sumatra, Indonesia working as a rubber plantation inspector, and in New Zealand as a fisheries administrator.He currently lives in a rural setting outside Robertsdale, Alabama with his wife Ann. They are both animal lovers and keep two old rescued dogs along with a total of six cats, four of which are rescued outdoor cats and two indoor. They have three daughters, one stepdaughter, and numerous grandchildren. Brun has been writing as an avocation since his college days, and now, in retirement, is turning up the ouput. He has written five plays (two produced, one on tap for fall), seven novels (three P.O.D.-published), two non-fiction works, poems, numerous short stories (two published), and several online travel articles. He was also a lecturer on cruise ships in the late 1990s.
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