Many Words Press-an imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce Advocatus Diaboli of the Catholic Themes, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: Advocatus Diaboli is the story of a murder mystery caught up in a canonization cause.
Its sharp edges and fleshly longings are confused and.
Compelling and credible, Baer has given us that rare gift-a clear-eyed, intelligent, religious Novel that eschews the pieties of doubters and unthinking believers alike.- Angela Alaimo O\'Donnell, author of Andalusian Hours: Poems Baer draws characters who face a world larger, stranger, and more vast than they at first know.
Baer writes in the tradition of Graham Greene, Walker Percy, Andre Dubus, and Ron Hansen, among others-Catholic fiction writers each of whom says No! in thunder to both the nihilism and easy belief of his era.
This is a brave Novel and a brave novelist, unafraid to address the unfashionable questions of faith and doubt, to posit the possibility (though never the certainty) of an immanent divinity at work in the lives of ordinary men and women, the human need for grace, and the power of redemptive suffering to save us from ourselves and each other.
This is fiction at its finest.- Joseph Pearce, author of The Quest for Shakespeare From the opening pages of William Baer\'s Advocatus Diaboli straight through to its moving conclusion, the reader is irrevocably hooked.
William Baer has shown himself a consummate novelist in the manner in which goodness is portrayed without preachiness in this gritty tour de force of a story, which has as many twists and turns as the finest page-turning mystery story.
It\'s difficult to depict sanctity without succumbing to either the saccharin or the preachy.
The reason is simple.
It\'s much easier to portray a whiskey priest than a genuine believable saint.
PRAISE FOR Advocatus Diaboli: It\'s much easier to depict wickedness than sanctity, vice than virtue.
Advocatus Diaboli is spellbinding as the best mystery novels and spiritually fulfilling in ways few of them could hope to, or even, care to achieve.
It interrogates the making and makeup of a Modern-day saint, juxtaposed to forces for good or ill working to upend or uphold the cause, in the backdrop of the day-to-day failings or goodness of its cast of characters and hagiographies of related saints of the past.
International in scope, it unravels though Washington, DC, Rome, the Vatican, Ireland, and elsewhere.
Many Words Press-an imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce Advocatus Diaboli of the Catholic Themes, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: Advocatus Diaboli is the story of a murder mystery caught up in a canonization cause
