Book Review: "The Stars Shine Bright" By Sibella Giorello

August 17, 2012 at 6:21 am | Posted in Books | 1 Comment
Tags: Book Review, Christian Fiction, Romance Fiction, Sibella Giorello, Thriller

I had the privilege of interviewing Sibella Giorello, on our radio show “Kingdom Highlights”, for her new book, “The Stars Shine Bright” Book Five in the Raleigh Harmon series published by Thomas Nelson which takes Raleigh Harmon undercover at the race track.

From the back cover: After the FBI suspends her for bending its rules, Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is looking for a chance to redeem her career and re-start her life.

Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, Raleigh takes on a double life to find out who’s fixing the races. But when horses start dying and then her own life is threatened, Raleigh realizes something bigger—and more sinister—is ruining Emerald Meadows.

She’s never felt more alone.

Her one contact with the FBI is Special Agent Jack Stephanson, a guy who seems to jump from antagonistic to genuine friend depending on the time of day. And she can’t turn to her family for support. They’re off-limits while she’s undercover, and her mother isn’t speaking to her anyway, having been confined to a mental hospital following a psychotic breakdown. Adding insult to her isolation, Raleigh’s fiancé wants them to begin their life together—now—precisely when she’s been ordered not to be herself.

With just days left before the season ends, Raleigh races to stop the killing and find out who’s behind the track’s trouble, all the while trying to determine if Jack is friend or foe, and whether marrying her fiancé will make things better—or worse.

Raleigh is walking through the darkest night she’s faced, searching for a place where the stars shine bright.

Lately I have been missing the classic mysteries that I used to read when I was younger where the investigator is trying to solve an almost impossible mystery but manages to do it one clue at a time.  The reader was given all those clues and, most times, we were unable to figure out what was going on until the investigator explained it.  Those days seem to be over.  Well let me tell you Sibella Giorello writes mysteries similar to those old classic writers.  I did not want to put down “The Stars Shine Bright”.  This time Raleigh Harmon is at a race track completely out of her element and there is quite a lot going on.  Ms. Harmon starts to provide the clues almost on page five but she doesn’t start to link them together until about page 260.  This book will have you flipping pages as fast as you can read.  Everyone needs a champion and Raleigh Harmon is a good one.  Ms. Giorello has created a winner with this series.  If you like a good mystery with twists and turns and some heart racing action then this is the book for you.   I recommend this book highly and am looking forward to the next book in the series.

Win a Kindle Fire from @SibellaGiorello in “The Stars Shine Bright” Giveaway!

Enter Today – 8/4-8/25!

Novelist Sibella Giorello is celebrating the release of the latest book in her praiseworthy Raleigh Harmon series by giving away a Kindle Fire! 

One grand prize winner will receive:

• A brand new Kindle Fire
• The entire 5-book Raleigh Harmon series.

Hurry, the giveaway ends on 8/25/12. The winner will be announced on 8/27/12 on Sibella’s blog!  

Just click one of the icons below to enter. Tell your friends about Sibella’s giveaway on Facebook or Twitter and increase your chances of winning.

If you missed the interview for “The Stars Shine Bright”  or  “The Mountains Bow Down”, book four in this series and would like to listen to it and/or other interviews as well please go to www.kingdomhighlights.org where it is available On Demand.

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity Group.  I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 <http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html> : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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