Guilt and a desperate need to find redemption drive the antiheroes in Tom Walker's dark -- and often darkly funny -- stories:A gullible journalist falls for the 40-year-old stripper he profiles in a magazineA faithless husband abandons his family and joins a support group for lost soulsA merciless prosecuting attorney grapples with the suicide of his gay sonAn aging misanthrope must make amends to five former victimsAn egoistic naval hero is haunted by apparitions of his dead wife and a mysterious little girlThe seven tales in Signed Confessions measure how far guilty men will go to obtain a pardon no one can grant but themselves.