Guest Author - Diana Pederson

Craig Parshall. The Accused. Harvest House Publishers. 2003.

The Accused has everything you could want in a single book: romance, murder, intrigue, mystery. I must admit I found the story hard to follow primarily because I couldn’t keep all the characters straight. It also requires that you know about the different governmental agencies and understand the military too!

The main characters Will Chambers and his wife Fiona begin their marriage with a honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico. As luck would have it, the honeymoon gets interrupted by official business involving the kidnapping of an U.S. government official and information on the murder of Will’s first wife.

Although I had difficulty with this particular book, it does bring out the fact that the international court wants to try United States soldiers (and citizens) for crimes committed during war. Some of the consequences of that decision are revealed through the story. It does give you something serious to think about. I hope this book leads everyone to pray that our Congress will never give in to international pressure to join the new world-wide justice system.

Recommendation

I can tell you this book is well written. People more intone with this type of story will no doubt find it exciting. Although I personally didn’t enjoy the book, read other reviews on it and decide for yourself if it is worth the price to you.