Killer Calling: A Plain Jane Mystery (A Cozy Christian Collection) (The Plain Jane Mysteries Book 7) by Traci Tyne Hilton

Author:Traci Tyne Hilton [Hilton, Traci Tyne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Proverbs 31 House, LLC
Published: 2017-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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The book seemed to espouse a minority opinion that women were less than men because Eve had caused the Fall, and that their purpose and role was to forever be apologizing to men for it. At least that was what Jane gathered.

The family discipline was highly biased against girls; family roles were highly biased against women.

It was an ugly book.

She tucked it into her pillowcase and went to the chapel, hoping to find Jake.

He was there, and alone. Jane caught him up with her news on the book, the strings and knots, and everything else she had learned from the girls.

“Interesting.” He sat close to her on one of the wooden pews, his hand wrapped around hers. “The boys tell a similar story. Of the seven families, three have been swept up in the philosophies of the book, and the boys that have graduated out of those homes are very mad about it. They do not approve of their sisters being blamed for all of the problems in the homes. They were really clear about it, in fact, going so far to call it out as abuse and a sin.”

“Wow.” Jane gave a silent prayer of gratitude for the wisdom of the young men. “So they haven’t been brainwashed by it.”

“Nope, but it looks like the little boys are eating it up.”

“Of course they are, little kings in their own houses,” Jane said.

“The teen guys aren’t having it. They have taken to their own kind of justice.”

“So, they beat their little brothers up a bit?”

“I don’t know how far they take it, but the amount of anger I heard got under my skin. They sound like they are overcorrecting. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear they had really hurt some of these little guys.” Jake sounded depressed, which caught his wife off guard.

“Or maybe killed the father who had introduced the idea to the orphanage.” Jane spoke low, the implications that the children, supposed to be in a safe place where they could flourish and learn about the Lord, turning to murder was horrific.

Jake was silent, one vein in his temple throbbing, his jaw twitching.

“If they had done it, would their mothers and sisters cover for them? Could this have been a whole community-inspired uprising?” Jane asked.

“What if it was?”

“What if that is the secret being communicated in those bundles of string?” Jane gripped Jake’s hand. “If so, they will never report it to the police.”

Jake furrowed his brow. “Then again, the widow and the other two women who support this philosophy probably also know the secret knot code, right? It doesn’t seem like they could plot to murder someone’s husband using a secret code the women are all in on.”

“Maybe they have a secret set of secret code strings that she never saw.” Jane was quiet. The reality that a good work could be undermined so thoroughly by bad teaching was hard to swallow. It wasn’t how she wanted the adult world to work.

“That could be. And anyway, if the heart medicine theory is right, his widow had to be in on it.

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