Fatal Convications Book Review

Fatal Convictions is a melding of spirituality, law and thriller that leaves the reader wanted to continue to turn the page of the book without putting it down. In this story by Singer, he mixes his can’t miss drama with the difficult topic of Muslim culture in American. In his story a Muslim converts to Christianity and soon suffers an honor killing in America. A imam of the a local mosque coming under fire as the evidence mounts up suggesting that he is the one who ordered the honor killing. To make things even worse, the woman’s husband and Imam’s best friend both have past ties to Hezbollah.

In this story the main character Alex Madison who is part time pastor and full time lawyer agrees to defend the imam. He does it though no for the reason of helping to protect someone, but because he thinks it will open the door to a personal injury case that he thinks will give him a large settlement. Even will ulterior motives, the more Madison gets into the case; the more he starts to belief that the imam is truly innocent and soon finds himself dealing with feelings for the imam’s daughter. With the intersection of faith, law, love, Muslim and American relations, Singer finds a way to keep you hanging on to the edge of your seat until you are completely surprised with the how the case ends.

What I like about this book is the way that Singer dances between difficult topics in American society with grace and honor. He paints the portrait of what it means to be a Christian from the stand point of love and grace, but does so while still showing the hones t human side of people, especially a pastor a person who we often forget is a human too. He does a great job of showcasing the struggles that we have when dealing with difficult topics but reminds us of the need to be accepting, loving and grace filled people.

The book is a little long and the plots and characters evolved quite a bit. It almost dictates reading it in a short amount of time as if you put the book down even a little bit, you might find yourself confused with where you left off.

However if you are a fan of thrillers like Grisham and Patterson then I think you will find this an entertaining book which intersects thriller with spiritual matters.

I was provided this book free by Tyndale House Publishing. I was not required to post a positive or negative comment and the thoughts expressed here are my own opinion of the book.