John’s Comments (group member since Mar 11, 2010)

John’s comments from the Ecclesiastical Thrillers group.

My latest book would qualify. In BLEEDER, a stigmatic priest bleeds to death on Good Friday in front of horrified parishioners. A miracle? Or bloody murder? Classics professor Reed Stubblefield needs to know. After all, police regard him as the prime person of interest in the mysterious death. He applies Aristotelian logic to find the truth. Clerics are minor characters in this story; the protagonist is a lapsed Presbyterian exploring the 'higher mystery' of undeserved suffering. The sequel I'm working on has a backdrop of Aztec mythology and Mexican Catholicism, though again, the protagonist is a lay person and not a cleric. -- Big fan of Susan Howatch's Church of England series and the more recent Healing Centre trilogy. These weren't 'thrillers' in terms of action but the psychological explorations are thrilling.

John Desjarlais
www.johndesjarlais.com