Praise for Ryne Douglas Pearson's novels... "... a plot that is all too believable." New York Times for 'Capitol Punishment' "... chillingly prescient..down-to-the-wire suspense" Publishers Weekly for 'Capitol Punishment' "Action-packed and fast-paced... Keeps the reader flipping pages frantically" Library Journal for 'Simple Simon' "Excellent entertainment from first page to last" Booklist for 'Simple Simon' "Aerodynamic prose and superb pacing... A one-sitting book that will make the hours fly by" Publishers Weekly for 'Simple Simon' "... told with a beauty and lyricism of language that had me breathless at times" Parlez-Moi for 'Confessions' __________________________________________________ A call in the dead of night summons Father Michael Jerome to a suburban Chicago hospital--a police officer has been shot. As department chaplain, Michael arrives to find that the officer will survive.

The same cannot be said for his assailant, who lays mortally wounded on a gurney, begging for absolution for some past sin. Offering last rites to the dying man, Michael hears his final confession and is shaken by the admission of a crime committed five years earlier.

A murder that shattered his family.

Struggling with the constraints of his faith, Michael moves cautiously as he tries to identify others involved in the vicious killing. But every secret he uncovers leads him further down a path where it becomes clear that someone is desperate for the past to stay buried.
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