WORDS OF CONVICTION by LINDA J. WHITE

In WORDS OF CONVICTION Linda White shows the importance of words in analyzing a person's character and state of mind. It is an exciting thriller and I can highly recommend it. The characters and their struggles are very real and are well portrayed.
F. B. I. agent Kenzie (Mackenzie) Graham is a psycholinguistics specialist who is in Washington to help uncover the underhand dealings of senator Bruce Grable, when the senator's five year old daughter, Zoe, is kidnapped. She is asked to stay on and help with the case using her special skill, namely uncovering what people may be hiding by analyzing their words and behaviour.
We see how the senator, and eventually his wife, change from being rude and demanding to being grateful for all that the agents are doing to help find their little girl. Their priorities change and the things that used to be important to them fade into insignificance. In the end we even see how their marriage relationship improves when they begin to understand one another.
Kenzie, whose mother is cold and critical, unlike her father who she loved dearly, comes to understand how Beth Grable feels left out of her daughter's life, due to Zoe's devotion to her father.
Kenzie finds herself in dangerous situations and overcomes her fear of enclosed spaces and spiders, amongst other things, with the help of the God who she has been ignoring since her father's death when she was twelve. Scott, the agent in charge of the operation who is an old friend of hers and a committed Christian, encourages her with the Word of God at just the right time. The novel clearly shows how people are convicted by God's Word and how He draws us to Him through His truth and the witness of those who live out their faith.
Both Kenzie and John Crowfeather are afraid of loving because of each losing the most important person in their lives, and need to let go of their negative feelings towards God before they can love again. What they go through in trying to find Zoe before it is too late helps them to do this and draws them to one another.
We are kept guessing right to the end of this nail biting drama!




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