Catholic Fiction

By Brian Moore
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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The myth of St. George-versus-the-Dragon comes to new and provocative life in this mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
James Ireton is a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady, and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim […]

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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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