Parishioner
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Atlantic Books
Publishing:11th Feb '27
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 11th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Crooks make the best detectives. They know how the guilty think and where the guilty hide.
Xavier Rule - Ecks to his friends - didn't come to California searching for salvation. A thief and a killer on the run from the law, he expected to disappear. But under the influence of the unusual church he's begun attending, Ecks has started to forgive himself and others for past misdeeds. Then Benol Richards walks through the door.
Twenty-three years ago, she helped her lover kidnap three baby boys and sold them on the black market - she has carried the guilt with her ever since. Now she wants to know what became of the children, and Ecks is given the job of finding out. But if he is to pick up this trail and follow where it leads, he will have to fight his old, lethal instincts - and know when justice demands he give in to them.
Walter Mosley is on my Mount Rushmore of crime fiction -- S.A. Cosby
Mosley writes with real verve and style -- Val McDermid
One of contemporary literature's pre-eminent crime novelists * New York Times *
When reviewing a book by Walter Mosley, it's hard not to simply quote all the great lines. There are so many of them. You want to share the pleasures of Mosley's jazz-inflected dialogue and the moody, descriptive passages reminiscent of Raymond Chandler at his best * Washington Post *
The dialogue is jazzy, the escalating crimes resounding, the pacing hypnotic, the wit lancing, and the underlying impetus philosophical with riffs on the power of language and the elusiveness of redemption * Booklist (starred review) *
ISBN: 9781804711484
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
352 pages