Waking Lazarus, by T.L. Hines

This is an advance reading copy I picked up in Boston at PLA from the Bethany House exhibit table. It's only taken me four months to read it! Actually, I only started it Wednesday; it just took me that long to pick it up.

This is actually a pretty good book, given the fact that this copy needed some edited (of course). There were also what I thought were some rather obvious clues to the mystery, and some clunky writing. Maybe that's been fixed.

The basic story is about a guy who has died three times, and come back to life: once by drowning, once by being struck by lightning, and once by hypothermia. These things seem to happen every 8 years, and he's now 32. A little paranoid, and more than a little tired of being recognized, he has picked up an alias and gone to ground, in Red Lodge, Montana. The area surrounding Red Lodge is being terrorized by a child-abductor....

Need I say more? It's a decent plot. There's a lot of God-talk--Bethany House is a Christian publisher--and I'm not quite sure how theologically sound all of the plot is, but it's a fun, and quick, read.