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Soho Press · Ebook · November 7, 2023
Detroit ex-cop August Snow puts his life on the line to protect a friend from modern-day Templars sworn to protect the name of the Catholic church at all costs.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense Detroit mystery pairs hard-boiled suspense with questions of faith and loyalty.
- Genres
- Hard-Boiled Mystery, Christian Suspense, Suspense
- Published
- Soho Press, November 7, 2023
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Detroit ex-cop August Snow puts his life on the line to protect a friend from modern-day Templars sworn to protect the name of the Catholic church at all costs. Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit’s Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling—especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest.
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What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious priest and combat vet calling himself Francis Dominioni Petra. The man comes from the Vatican, and as his armored guard circles closer and closer to Father Grabowski and his friends, August wants to know why. A terrible crime has been committed in the name of faith—but who is seeking justice, and who is trying to bury the truth and any of its witnesses? August grapples with his own ideas about his faith and his chosen family in this action-packed fourth installment in the Hammett Prize–winning series.
Faith Under Pressure
A tense Detroit mystery pairs hard-boiled suspense with questions of faith and loyalty.
Come here for
- Hard-boiled suspense with faith and chosen family in the mix
- A Detroit mystery with church shadows
Expect
- Action-packed pressure and moral unease
- A fourth August Snow story, with faith close to the stakes
Where it sits
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 58% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 33% |
| Christian Suspense | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Police Procedurals
- Crime Fiction
- Black Mystery
- Authors
- Stephen Mack Jones
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Published
- November 7, 2023
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Police Procedurals