Reed Arvin Books In Order

Novels

The Wind in Wheat (1994)
The Will (2000)
The Last Goodbye (2004)
Blood of Angels (2005)

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Reed Arvin Books Overview

The Wind in Wheat

Written by a respected producer who has worked with artists and understands the dilemmas they face, The Wind in the Wheat is not just the story of a young Kansas farmer who goes to Nashville to make it big in Christian music. It’s about money and ministry. Compromise and conviction. Stars and servants. Most of all, it’s about what it means to be important in God’s eyes. If you have ever longed to do great things for God’s kingdom, you’ll find your own heart reflected in Andrew Miracle’s journey.

The Will

What lengths would someone go to bury a secret? What lengths would someone go to uncover one? Henry Mathews, a young, ambitious associate at one of the top law firms in Chicago, is a man on the move. As lethal in a courtroom as a shark in an aquarium, he is rising fast. But his hard driving mentor, the senior partner, is obsessed with a telling inconsistency on Henry’s otherwise brilliant r sum : the year after he graduated from college, Henry enrolled at a seminary in Kentucky. Even more perplexing, Henry left suddenly three weeks before the end of the first year, and won’t speak of the episode. But Henry’s past refuses to go away. Called back to his tiny hometown in Council Grove, Kansas, to execute The Will of Tyler Crandall, the town’s richest man, Henry gets enmeshed in a web of long hidden secrets. Tyler has chosen not to leave his wealth to his grasping son, but instead has made a homeless derelict called the Birdman a sudden millionaire and Council Grove’s most powerful resident. The Birdman, scripture spouting and delusional, prophesies a dark vision of retribution and hellfire. But soon it becomes clear that locked behind his madness is the key to the real history of Council Grove. When a grotesque and cruel act convinces Henry that powerful forces will do anything to keep those secrets hidden, he determines to protect the Birdman and uncover the truth. But the cost is high: Henry is in danger of losing both his job in Chicago and his beautiful, ambitious girlfriend. Henry, given the opportunity to use his phenomenal legal skills for good, discovers that right and wrong are more complex than he imagined. Sucked into secrets of money, politics, and a tragic love affair secrets with the power to ruin lives Henry finds his own sense of morality under assault. As black and white turn to gray, what began as a legal battle becomes a spiritual journey stretching back to Henry’s mysterious experience at the seminary. More than just a legal thriller, The Will is an absorbing, deeply satisfying read.

The Last Goodbye

From the hot new suspense writer critics predict will have Grisham fans ‘switching their allegiance in midstream’ comes a thrilling tale of love and murder set on the mean streets and in the sleek society haunts of Atlanta…
. Sleeping with a client’s gorgeous girlfriend may have been the gutsiest move in Jack Hammond’s formerly booming law career, but it wasn’t the smartest. Booted from his elite law firm, Jack now scrapes by as a court appointed attorney, his client list a revolving door of small time drug offenders and petty thieves. When his friend a computer whiz and former addict who’d brought his life back from the brink is found dead in his apartment with a syringe stuck in his arm, Jack knows something is very wrong. Where the cops see just another overdose, Jack sees a murder. Investigating the case, he learns that his friend was obsessed with a beautiful singer who also happens to be half of the most popular power couple in Atlanta. Talented and privileged, the spellbinding Michele Sonnieris nevertheless a deeply troubled woman, plagued by secrets. Against his better judgment and in a disturbing echo of his earlier fall from grace Jack is pulled further and further into her world, where he discovers more suspicious deaths, all pointing toward a mysterious cover up. A volatile tale of love, betrayal, and murder shot through with tenderness and poignant humanity, The Last Goodbye is a riveting thriller with a thunderously beating heart, a masterful page turner that probes the meaning of love and the burdens of the past.

Blood of Angels

Reed Arvin’s previous novel, The Last Goodbye, was ‘the best thing a thriller can be: suspenseful, intelligent, and well written’ Harlan Coben, and had the critics raving: People magazine stated, ‘You’ll be hooked,’ and the New York Times declared it ‘sultry, devious, adrenaline boosting suspense.’ Now comes a vivid and haunting tale of one man’s search for the truth no matter what the consequences. Thomas Dennehy, senior prosecutor in Davidson County, Tennessee, doesn’t recognize Nashville anymore: a decade of relentless immigration means cops are learning Spanish, and the DA”s office is looking for Vietnamese translators. Thomas’s latest case is prosecuting Moses Bol, a Sudanese refugee who faces the death penalty for killing a white woman in the Nations, a notorious, racially charged part of town. Bol’s conviction seems certain, until a university professor claims Thomas sent the wrong man to the death chamber in a previous case. The DA’ s office is rocked to its core, but within days another blow falls: a beautiful and brilliant anti death penalty activist mysteriously surfaces as Bol’s alibi, claiming she was with him at the time of the crime. Bol’s case becomes a lightning rod as protesters on all sides converge on Nashville and tensions threaten to explode. Meanwhile, Bol’s alibi has her own secrets and is terrified of someone working behind the scenes to get what he wants even if it means murder. Will Dennehy be able to piece things together before everything he believes about the law, and about justice, is torn apart? Vivid with the emotional complexity that has become the hallmark of Reed Arvin’s work, Blood of Angels is filled with nonstop action, impeccable detail, and unforgettable characters, making this a novel that is impossible to resist.