Featured Book - Thin Places by Diane Owens Prettyman

Thin Places - Featured Book

by Diane Owens Prettyman 

Rated 4 Stars

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Book Description of Thin Places:

In their review of Thin Places, Kirkus Reviews stated:
" ...the dialogue between Chloe and Finn rings true. Their story is refreshingly free of the sort of trumped-up incidents that often throw male and female leads together, and Prettyman intriguingly finds resonance in the fact that Chloe and Finn each harbor secrets. ...engaging romance/mystery with a hint of the otherworldly."

“Author Diane Prettyman's title emanates from a Celtic saying: "Heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places the distance is even smaller."

Thin places are a-plenty here: Calvery's ghost and voice become visible to his daughter Chloe and friend Finn at specific events - the treasure hunt, for one. Or as reminders during certain moments: "Time is too expensive to be spent in anger." Those places where God shows up multiply when Finn is re-united with his own daughter, seven-year-old Lacy, and with his father, who shows up as savior during Chloe's kidnapping. Even Chloe's dog Jazz has his own form of spiritual connection.

Add coincidences to that thin space; characters appear at the beginning, leave, then suddenly re-enter the story - all for good reasons. Co-prisoner Jules chums up to Finn while in the Huntsville, Texas, cell; at the finger-biting end, he then kidnaps Calvery's daughter, along with Duke (the felon who framed Calvery for the murder), to find the treasure.

Though it does need a mind map to figure out who knows who, where, and why, the flow of narrative is almost inexorable, and compelling. Characters are beautifully drawn; Finn Tully's Mom, Lucia, who's dying, finds love in strange places while she calmly accepts her fate: "I can still buy green bananas," she tells Finn. Between fishing-boat captain Chloe, Lucia's Audubon-loving Ovid, and Native American Millard, these are people you'll want to visit again, and again.

Prisoner Finn Tully befriends Death Row inmate and supposed murderer Calvery Thomas, who entrusts both a secret treasure and an estranged daughter to Finn, right before his execution. Readers will cheer for Finn's reformation, despite the plot's many twists and turns.

"THIN PLACES is an elegantly written, captivating narrative of redemption.”

Reviewed by Barbara Jacobs for IndieReader

Meet Diane Owens Prettyman

Diane Owens Prettyman is the author of two novels: Thin Places, which won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Manuscript Contest and Redesigning Emma, which won the Colorado Romance Writers Heart of the Rockies Contest.

Prettyman has also written for many publications including Oxygen, Texas, Oregon Coast and The Austin American Statesman. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Thin Places - Reviews

A fine debut novel, and the only one I've read that combines the best aspects of a thriller, the depth of character of the highest-order literary fiction, and the sublimeness of the most memorable spiritual writing... - Anonymoustache

This novel is special. It contains a message and introduces us to realistic characters and places, while it takes us on a journey of discovery. - Diane Rapp

Thin Places is an intriguing story with lovely descriptive
language. -  Luv2read

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