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Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Penguin Classics (April 26, 2005) ISBN-10: 0143039113 ISBN-13: 978-0143039112 reviewed by Roy Peachey If you’re after brilliant writing and an exciting plot and don’t mind dodgy theology then Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear is the book for you. Greene called his novel an ‘entertainment’ but it is clearly much more [...]
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Knopf ISBN-10: 1400043530 ISBN-13: 978-1400043538 reviewed by Kathleen Valentine Anne Rice has long been known as a writer of gothic tales populated with vampires, witches, devils and other supernatural beings. Her books are lavish in delicious detail, seething atmosphere, and no small amount of steamy sex often laced with homo-eroticism, sadism, [...]
By Steve Weatherbe Meeting Catholicism through Thomas Merton Raised in a secular Jewish home in Brooklyn, he followed the plan to Columbia University, where he first encountered Catholicism in the still vibrant memory of Thomas Merton. Merton had edited a literary magazine at Columbia in his undergraduate days and Gruber now held down the same [...]
Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.; New edition edition (January 1, 2004) ISBN-10: 0802812198 ISBN-13: 978-0802812193 reviewed by Christine Sunderland Looking for the Holy Graal in a Village Church In Charles Williams’ supernatural thriller War in Heaven, an exquisitely constructed story pits three good characters against three evil ones in the protection [...]
By Steve Weatherbe (This article also appeared in the National Catholic Register) When thriller writer Michael Gruber had his first religious experience, he was in the middle of a personal crisis that produced symptoms of self-destructiveness, hypochondria and agoraphobia, especially on airplanes. He was also on a flight from New York to Seattle, and in [...]
Paperback: 241 pages Publisher: PublishAmerica (July 14, 2003) ISBN-10: 1592868029 ISBN-13: 978-1592868025 reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach Past Suspicion is an intriguing young adult thriller which tells the story of orphaned 17-year-old Robin Finley. Before her mother dies, she whispers, “Don’t trust anyone.” Robin, a gifted artist, thinks that her mom has been too protective [...]
ISBN: 978-1-59597-0145 published by Idylls Press reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach I have been wanting to read The Mystery of Things by Debra Murphy for a long time. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of this book recently and, on one rainy Saturday, I finally had an opportunity to read it. I was [...]
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès [Editor's note: with this latest review from Tannia, I've added a new "category/genre" to the list on our site: "secular fiction". This will be for the occasional reviews we get regarding secular books our reviewers especially want to recommend to Catholic readers...or perhaps warn them away from, as the case may [...]
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès The award winning action-drama novel In-Sight, written by author Gerard D. Webster, stands out among other Catholic books in this genre. The book begins with Carrie Hope’s dad’s last words to her before dying in the hospital: ”I love you as my own.” Carrie’s parents were killed by a drunk driver [...]
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès Seed is the first of seven books in the apocalyptic epic series Dominion written and published by Compasse. The book cover displays prophetic symbols, such as the morning star with dark stormy clouds moving fast to overshadow it, and a field where a battered and pregnant woman plants a seed, representing a [...]
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