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Posted in Suspense/Thriller on Jul 2nd, 2009
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009), 215 pages.
Reviewed by Christine Sunderland
This thoughtful literary thriller addresses weighty and timely themes: not only challenges to belief in an unbelieving world, but the devastation of AIDS and sexual license, the disparity between first and third worlds, rich and poor, and the role of a Church guided by tradition. Secular [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Political, Suspense/Thriller on Jan 29th, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
The Colour of Blood is a tight, page-turning Catholic thriller in the Graham Greene tradition. The opening sequence hits the ground running: Cardinal Bem, head of the Church in an unnamed Soviet bloc country, is being chauffered back to his residence when
“He saw, peripherally, a black car racing very close to his. [...]
Posted in Historical, Horror, Suspense/Thriller on Sep 20th, 2006
reviewed by Debra Murphy
I’ve never been a huge fan of the vampire story. As a youngster, I was duly appreciative of the shivers to be had from the old Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee movies that played on television. (Back in Champaign-Urbana, where I grew up, there was a regular Late Show movie once a [...]
Posted in Literary Fiction, Suspense/Thriller on May 18th, 2006
reviewed by Kevin Jones (and originally published on Philokalia Republic)
I don’t suppose a book counts as light reading if it includes untranslated Greek phrases. Nevertheless, Dona Tartt’s The Secret History has been one of my more enjoyable lighter reads of the year.
To perform an imitation of a jacket cover summary: On a Northeastern college campus [...]
Posted in Literary Fiction, Mystery/Detective, Romance, Suspense/Thriller, Theological/Philosophical on Feb 13th, 2006
…this is a stunning debut novel in the modern thriller genre, complete with sex and violence. It is hard to imagine that an orthodox Catholic could have achieved such a thing without disgracing herself, but Debra Murphy seems to have pulled it off. Not since Flannery O’Connor have the workings of grace in a fallen [...]
Posted in Suspense/Thriller, Young Adult on Jan 23rd, 2006
Reviewed by Debra Murphy
Author Regina Doman has re-worked the venerable “Snow White and Rose Red” fairy tale, one of the Grimm Brothers’ most memorable, into a cracking good suspense yarn for young adults, and the young at heart of all ages.
Blanche and Rose Brier are a Sense-and-Sensibility pair of teenagers newly arrived, with their Widowed [...]
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Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
By ‘Catholic Literature’ is not to be understood a literature which treats exclusively or primarily of Catholic matters, of Catholic doctrine, controversy, history, persons, or politics; but it includes all subjects of literature whatever, treated as a Catholic would treat them, and as he only can treat them.
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: Dawn, I found a French translation with Mauriac's intro, presumably also in French, but know of no English versions. (See; http://tinyurl.com/qbv3qn )
: I am trying to find the edition of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory that has an intro by Francois Mauriac. Can you help? [...]
: GREAT SITE! I only just found it because I have a guy who asked me to read The Shack. Too, bad he really loved it [...]
: Thanks for the tip, Costance. We'll check her out.
: Ya'll have an amazing site here, but you should read Carmen Marcoux's books and list them, because they are fabulous, and Catholic.
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