Prisoners of Hope: An Amanda Doucette Mystery

The author, a retired psychologist, does a fine job of building her characters; unlike some amateur-sleuth mysteries, whose protagonists seem either too clever or too cute by half, Fradkin populates her series with real people whose lives encompass more than solving the odd crime. Keep ’em coming. Booklist

Fradkin combines a white-knuckle mystery with a look at the serious social problem of foreign worker exploitation. Publishers Weekly

A great evocation of the lakes, the beauty and the power… Amanda Doucette is somebody I’d like for a friend. All of the characters were most believable. I expect to meet them on my next trip up north. Maureen Jennings, author of The Murdoch Mysteries

A good mystery … can get readers thinking about the morality of what we do. Faith Today