Easter Week is a time for celebration, but it is also a time for a lot of work for church secretaries, and Cindy Preston is feeling the pressure already when she arrives to work at the First Presbyterian Church on the Monday before Easter. But when she stumbles over a dead body in the sanctuary, the week suddenly goes from bad to worse. As she panics and screams, help arrives in the form of Jeremiah Silverman, the rabbi from the next door synagogue, who helps Cindy call the police. As Detective Mark Waters and his team uncover more and more clues to the unknown dead man's identity, it soon becomes come clear that a serial killer might be on the loose, and he seems to be tracking Cindy closely. As more and more dead bodies begin to turn up, each murder relating to an event connected to the Easter Week as well as Passover, Cindy finds herself turning not to her fellow church members, but to Jeremiah for help in understanding what's happening. And when the killer strikes a family in Jeremiah's congregant, he and Cindy both know they have to unravel who the murder is before the killer comes after them. In her debut novel of the Psalm 23 Mysteries, THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, author Debbie Viguie delves into murder and mayhem with a spiritual setting in a unique way. Using the romantic tension between her main characters, as well their cultural and spiritual differences, Viguie gives her story the gentle twist of seductive intrigue that somewhat tempers the aggressive, almost brutal nature of the mystery at hand. Viguie captures spot-on the hard work of the average church secretary and the church politics that most have to endure, and I found the romantic aspect of the story to be well done. But I found myself shuddering at the graphically violent manner that the victims were depicted. This is definitely not a cozy mystery, but for those who prefer a little gore with their suspense, THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD will be right up their alley.