Lentorama 2024: Clerical Crime Solvers

Day 4: Walker "Bear" Wells

Bear Wells is a minister in Sugar Land, Texas, an upscale suburb of Houston. His status among the locals is burnished by being a former University of Texas football player, and he finds his schedule jammed with commitments for both the church and the community. And, occasionally, dealing with a suspicious death.

Perhaps unusually for this genre, Wells doesn't have legal training or possess natural gifts for sleuthing. He's actually not that interested in playing detective - his focus is on his flock - but finds himself involved when the cases touch upon his family.

The series is written by Stephanie Jaye Evans, who brings significant personal experience to the page as the daughter of a Church of Christ minister and native Texan. While she appears to still be active in the Houston writing community, the series only has two books to date, the last published in 2013.