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The Sin #3
Purgatory
“Find Patrick Lahm. Tell him it has her.”
When a serial killer is found dead in the woods outside the quiet town of Darville, with scratches across his face and his head impaled on a shovel, Patrick Lahm and Jimmy Frey are called back to Connecticut. Living as fugitives and constantly moving from place to place, it is a call they have been praying for in their tedious search for the monster that started it all and tore their lives apart.
But Darville is not as peaceful as it seems, and the sins of the many cannot remain hidden forever. Patrick and Jimmy quickly realize that, despite their best laid plans, things can go terribly wrong. As darkness descends on the small New England town, the evil that had once brought misery upon the guests of the Kurtain Motel, finds its place amongst the wicked and promises them salvation.
All they have to do is confess.
When a serial killer is found dead in the woods outside the quiet town of Darville, with scratches across his face and his head impaled on a shovel, Patrick Lahm and Jimmy Frey are called back to Connecticut. Living as fugitives and constantly moving from place to place, it is a call they have been praying for in their tedious search for the monster that started it all and tore their lives apart.
But Darville is not as peaceful as it seems, and the sins of the many cannot remain hidden forever. Patrick and Jimmy quickly realize that, despite their best laid plans, things can go terribly wrong. As darkness descends on the small New England town, the evil that had once brought misery upon the guests of the Kurtain Motel, finds its place amongst the wicked and promises them salvation.
All they have to do is confess.
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First published September 30, 2016
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About the author
A.I. Nasser
47 books84 followersAt the age of four, Ahmed I. Nasser’s parents decided that the best way to keep a hyperactive child occupied was to teach him how to read and constantly bombard him with books. Since then, the world of imagination has constantly consumed him. He quickly decided that the only way to feel fulfilled was to spend his time writing one story after the other, even opting out of a career as a pediatrician, despite ten years of struggling through med-school.
Influenced by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, he has been writing since the age of 12 while travelling the world with his family. Now, finally settled in Egypt, he divides his time between teaching Middle School English Literature and finding the best ways to scare his family and friends.
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Influenced by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, he has been writing since the age of 12 while travelling the world with his family. Now, finally settled in Egypt, he divides his time between teaching Middle School English Literature and finding the best ways to scare his family and friends.
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November 13, 2020
Patrick and Jimmy are still out there hiding and yet trying to find the monster that wrecked their lives so they can destroy it. The only problem is the monster is inside Jimmy's mom. This was a great 3rd book in the series with plenty of action, spiders and CONFESS in it. All in all I enjoyed the series. I still think it would make a great movie but wouldn't look forward to seeing millions of spiders crawling on everyone....yuck!
September 12, 2018
Another great Scarestreet book!
Nassar kept me engrossed throughout the entire book! Edge of my seat, caught between hope and horror, I couldn't stop until the very end! Bravo 👏
Nassar kept me engrossed throughout the entire book! Edge of my seat, caught between hope and horror, I couldn't stop until the very end! Bravo 👏
September 25, 2017
Book 3 sees Patrick and Jimmy on the hunt for the evil that took over Jimmy's mother. Patrick gets a call from a friend to tell them about a serial killer being killed near where he lives, Darville. After the events at the Kurtain Motel in the last book, Patrick is wanted by the police so is trying to keep a low profile, but he has no choice but to go to Darville and investigate.
This one is hard to summarise simply because this is book 3 and I would spoil things for both book 2 and this one. So I'll just say that the plot of this was great. It wraps up a lot of the questions from the other books, plus it's a lot darker. Poor Patrick is stuck in the cell with the spiders!!! *Shiver* The plot of the overall series is quite complex and twisty, but worth it if you stick with it. I was blown away with parts!!
Jimmy and Patrick have their work cut out for them and things come to a head. I was rooting for them the whole way through and was satisfied with the ending!! So in all, a great ending and I need to check out more from this author.
Thom Bowers read this well and gave a great performance. He is easy to listen to and brought the story alive.
I was voluntarily provided this audiobook for free from the author, narrator, or publisher. This in no way affected nor influenced my thoughts.
This one is hard to summarise simply because this is book 3 and I would spoil things for both book 2 and this one. So I'll just say that the plot of this was great. It wraps up a lot of the questions from the other books, plus it's a lot darker. Poor Patrick is stuck in the cell with the spiders!!! *Shiver* The plot of the overall series is quite complex and twisty, but worth it if you stick with it. I was blown away with parts!!
Jimmy and Patrick have their work cut out for them and things come to a head. I was rooting for them the whole way through and was satisfied with the ending!! So in all, a great ending and I need to check out more from this author.
Thom Bowers read this well and gave a great performance. He is easy to listen to and brought the story alive.
I was voluntarily provided this audiobook for free from the author, narrator, or publisher. This in no way affected nor influenced my thoughts.
November 7, 2017
I received a free audio.com version of this book. Purgatory is the last of a series of three books in The Sin series. This is an excellent series with lots of scares and drama. Patrick Lahm and Jimmy Frey have escaped from Refuge and now face their biggest challenge yet. An unspeakable horror has taken over Jimmy's mother's body and is busy gathering souls for it's new "farm." To stop it, Patrick and Jimmy must fight their way through their own nightmares and team up with some less than savory characters. I found myself cheering them on and fearing for them as they got into jam after jam.
Anyone who likes ghost stories and supernatural horror will like this series. I enjoyed it every bit as much as the Berkley Street series, and that is a great one as well. Give it a shot.
Anyone who likes ghost stories and supernatural horror will like this series. I enjoyed it every bit as much as the Berkley Street series, and that is a great one as well. Give it a shot.
February 21, 2017
Amazing read
Great third book in this series. Great story and characters. Hoping that there will be another more in depth and longer book
Great third book in this series. Great story and characters. Hoping that there will be another more in depth and longer book
June 5, 2021
I really liked this book, much better than #2, but still #1 was my favorite. What kept me from rating it higher was there were just too many unanswered questions. I don't need everything tied up in a neat bow but too many things left ambiguous. My biggest one was who is Phillip? To have such an important character show up in the last 3rd of a book with not much information was just infuriating. If the author ever writes a 4th book (which it seems like the ending left that possibility open), this might not bother me so much.
Other questions that never even approached an answer included:
- How did the soul collector get a hold of Tara in the first place? She was supposed to be pretty strong and suddenly she's possessed. We don't ever get to even see that struggle which could shed light on it.
- Was Patrick Lahm important or not? Much was made of him in the first book. Then the second book he was kind of useless and Jimmy seemed to be all that matters. Then in the 3rd book he seemed possibly important again but then not so much. And just the way it ended for Patrick made me think he wasn't that important but really should be.
So it was good story and had a quick pace but did not have the closure I was expecting for the end of a trilogy.
Other questions that never even approached an answer included:
- How did the soul collector get a hold of Tara in the first place? She was supposed to be pretty strong and suddenly she's possessed. We don't ever get to even see that struggle which could shed light on it.
- Was Patrick Lahm important or not? Much was made of him in the first book. Then the second book he was kind of useless and Jimmy seemed to be all that matters. Then in the 3rd book he seemed possibly important again but then not so much. And just the way it ended for Patrick made me think he wasn't that important but really should be.
So it was good story and had a quick pace but did not have the closure I was expecting for the end of a trilogy.
June 4, 2020
This is part number three in the series. You have only three who survived that stormy night at Kurtain Motel. You have Patrick Lehm, Tara and her teenage son Jimmy. They're trying to get away to Canada. Sadly they stop in the town of Refuge, Maine and they feel safe. Patrick gets a job. You then have Patrick and Jimmy trying to rescud Tara who is in Purgatory. The characters are interesting and go well with the storyline. You have suspense, sometimes creepy, but remember confessions set you free. I enjoyed this book even with the Zombies. The narration is good and you will want the audible version.
June 30, 2022
Patrick and Jimmy have been on the run since they left the Kurtain Motel. They are trying to find Jimmy’s mom who was possessed by the evil that haunted them at the motel. They find themselves in a town called Darville. Something is definitely wrong in Darville. Evil lurks there. Once again those creepy spiders make an appearance. All I kept thinking as I read this series is that it would make an awesome movie, spiders and all. I do feel that the series left me with some unanswered questions. Was that enough to make me not enjoy the story? Definitely not. I need to check some of the other books by this author. But please, check out this trilogy, you won’t be disappointed.
August 13, 2023
Run, run, as fast as you can...
No matter what they do, the nightmares continue to close in. Until they confess their sins, they are hounded - once they do, they are doomed.
As Patrick and Jimmy race to find Tara, and hopefully save her before the soul collector inside her brings her to ruin, there are other entities to be dealt with - and time and space have a funny way of shifting.
This was perfection in a book, and a great read. Sad to see this series end.
No matter what they do, the nightmares continue to close in. Until they confess their sins, they are hounded - once they do, they are doomed.
As Patrick and Jimmy race to find Tara, and hopefully save her before the soul collector inside her brings her to ruin, there are other entities to be dealt with - and time and space have a funny way of shifting.
This was perfection in a book, and a great read. Sad to see this series end.
February 6, 2020
The final book in the series had so much potential. Where it went wrong was that it left more questions than answers. Instead of tying up story by explaining what was going on and how the main characters fit into the bigger picture, a new key character was introduced and more questions were created. Ultimately, what was left out was an explanation of who the new character really was, at least in terms of how he knew Tara and Jimmy. The author teased us throughout the book by having this new character say he would explain everything later, but later never came. One more chapter tying things up and this would have been 5 stars.
December 26, 2018
Least favorite of this trilogy. Woulda liked a better ending.
October 18, 2020
Hoping this isn't the end of the series as I still have So. Many. Questions.
September 3, 2023
Boring
Slow and he brings characters that have no meaning because we don't know where the come. God luck. Awful not scary.
Slow and he brings characters that have no meaning because we don't know where the come. God luck. Awful not scary.
May 8, 2025
I think I mostly enjoy how short these are.
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