Guilt By Association - Gilbert Morris

Title: Guilt by Association (Danielle Ross #1, a.k.a. "One By One")
Author: Gilbert Morris
Genre: Christian fiction, suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 296
Date read: October 2013, November 2021

One secret links twelve strangers. One secret that could cost them everything. Danielle Ross's life keeps slipping out of control. First she must abandon her education to take over her ill father's floundering detective agency. Then, while pursuing a new case, Dani becomes a victim herself. She awakens in a strange place and finds herself surrounded by eleven other people. Among them are a doctor, a dancer, a German submarine commander, and a former Death Row inmate--all clueless as to why they have been brought together. The culprit relentlessly insists they are united by one dark secret and that their lives depend on their confessing it. Can Dani find the link between these strangers before time runs out?

One of my favourite books which I've read too many times to count. The evangelization does get a bit heavy handed at times perhaps, but it's kept within the concept of the story-line, so I don't think it would be too much - even to a non-Christian.

I know the story well enough by now that I remember most details, so it's fun to see how many clues I can pick up on before the characters themselves do. Unlike many other crime novels the clues are made present to the reader as well, which makes for a much more satisfying read :)

Still, my favourite parts of the story is reading about life in the silo and the backgrounds of the different people there.


Reread 2021: Wow, this book does NOT age well! The plot is as good as always, but the characters? Especially Ben and Dani? Waaaaay old-fashioned in the worst way. I read the last chapter with a permanent eyeroll.