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We welcome back Dr. Rebecca Butterman, aka Dr. Aster, columnist for Bloom! magazine and local psychologist in the small town of Guilford, CT. Rebecca gets a very strange call in the middle of the night from the local police, asking her to attend her minister at the local hospital/urgent care center. Perplexed, she starts asking questions, but winds up traveling through the frosty temperatures to find out why her minister (whom she barely knows) called 911 from the home of a parishioner late on Friday night after finding her near death!

From back of book: Psychologist/advice columnist Dr. Rebecca Butterman gets a call in the middle of the night from the minister at her church. He's in custody after going to a parishioner's home--and finding her freshly dead. The murdered matron was the leader of a search committee charged with finding a new assistant pastor after the previous one left in a rush. Rebecca learns that the committee was divided--Did someone try to eliminate the competition? Now she's putting her analytical skills to work to track the killer, while resisting the urge to break the seventh commandment with a very married detective and praying she's not the next victim.

(Source: Berkley)