False Prophet

by Donna Banta

In the summer of 2008, the brutal murder of a devout Mormon widower sends Lieutenant Ryan back into the LDS community of Abbottsville, California. This time his investigation leads him inside the Mormon temple, behind the scenes at an LDS mission home, and into the workings of the Mormon campaign to pass Proposition 8.

230 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 2013

About the author

Donna Banta authored her first full length story at age ten, a mystery/thriller about the cote of mourning doves that toddled around her backyard. To this day, she continues her fascination with the mystery and intrigue that persists within small, seemingly like-minded societies. Open House, her latest mystery, takes place in an elite neighborhood in Dallas. Previous novels, Seer Stone, False Prophet, The Girls from Fourth Ward, and Mormon Erotica, are set within LDS communities in Northern California. Her short fiction has appeared in various literary journals and story collections including, Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction (Lethe Press) and Recreating Our Common Chord (Wising Up Press). She lives in Sonoma, California with her husband.