Last week Lutheran author Ray Keating released book 15 in his Pastor Stephen Grant Series: What’s Lost? This latest installment is another novella, written in the style of a journal. Below: my What’s Lost review.
What’s Lost Review
Another enjoyable read from Ray Keating, just in time for summer.
This was another quick read—a little over a hundred pages. It was written in the style of a personal journal, which was fine, though I think it worked better in the beginning than toward the end. After all, how many of us, as adults, are still vulnerable in our diaries? Would a former CIA agent be?
Still, things warmed up in the story toward the action & soul searching we fans know to expect and love. 🙂 The use of journaling didn’t hinder the flow of text. It even became a bit of a plot point as another journal emerged amid travels. A few new characters join several of the ongoing characters we already know and love to give us another episode of Pastor Stephen Grant.
What’s lost? Thankfully not what I initially feared! And I expect several of you will breathe a sigh of relief right alongside me. What’s not lost? Stephen’s faithfulness toward God and his wife even during a side adventure involving Paige.
Series Review
Here are the Pastor Stephen Grant novels & short stories in order with my reviews:
- Warrior Monk (2010) (Reviewed here)
- Root of All Evil? (2012) (Reviewed here)
- An Advent for Religious Liberty (2012) (Reviewed here)
- The River (2014) (Reviewed here)
- Murderer’s Row (2015) (Reviewed here)
- Wine Into Water (2016) (Reviewed here)
- Lionhearts (2017) (Reviewed here)
- Reagan Country (2018) (I missed reviewing one! I know I read it and enjoyed it. Huh.)
- Heroes & Villains (2018) (short story) (Reviewed here)
- Shifting Sands (2018) (short story) (Reviewed here)
- Deep Rough (July 16, 2019) (Reviewed here)
- The Traitor (December 9, 2019) (novella?) (Reviewed here)
- Vatican Shadows (November 30, 2020) (Reviewed here)
- Past Lives: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story (February 26, 2021) (Reviewed here)
- What’s Lost (May 28, 2021) (Reviewed here)