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Zusatztext "Hard to put down." Informationen zum Autor In her career as writer, producer and creative consultant, Karen Hall has worked on numerous series, including M*A*S*H , Hill Street Blues , Moonlighting , Roseanne , and Grace Under Fire . She has received seven Emmy Award nominations, as well as the Humanitas Prize, the Women in Film Luminas Award, and the Writers Guild of America Award. Her novel, Dark Debts , was a Book of the Month Club main selection when first published in 1996 and has been translated into French, German, and Japanese. She and her husband own Black Bear Books, an independent bookstore in Boone, North Carolina. Klappentext In Dark Debts , Karen Hall masterfully combines southern gothic, romantic comedy, and mystery in a wildly original theological thriller that has become a cult favorite since being published twenty years ago. In this new anniversary edition, the author has reimagined her work. The result is a suspenseful, irreverent, and deeply spiritual novel that captivates from the very beginning and doesn't let go.When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he's leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam's brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened. Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret from him. How these characters converge is part of the thrilling mystery of Dark Debts , a cult favorite first published twenty years ago. In this new edition, author Karen Hall has reimaged her southern gothic tale and the result is a work of even greater power?a brilliantly realized and suspenseful evocation of the conflict between good and evil.Dark Debts ONE Los Angeles, 1996 Randa couldn’t move. She could feel her weight in the chair and it was the only thing keeping her upright. How long was she going to have to stay here? It was three o’clock in the morning and she had to be at work by nine. Or did she? Was this a legitimate excuse to take the day off?? Did she have a right to mourn? And would everyone see it as mourning, or merely as the final chapter in a neurotic obsession? She had felt uncomfortable at the paper ever since last summer. She knew a lot of people had bought the self-serving pile of crap Cam had spread around, in which she came off as a psychopath. “How long did you say you’ve known Mr. Landry?” It came from the older one: a doughy, middle-aged man wearing a shirt the color of Dijon mustard. Neither of them looked anything like she would have expected a detective to look. I don’t know a Mr. Landry. Mr. Landry is someone’s political science teacher. I know Cam. “Seven years. Or eight.” Then she added, “I haven’t seen him in a year.” She didn’t know whether that was relevant or not. It was certainly relevant to her. They had made her identify the body. A granite-faced man from the coroner’s office had lifted the sheet, while a uniformed cop had supported her by the elbow in case she collapsed. Apparently a fifteen-story fall onto the concrete sidewalk had yielded all sorts of ugliness. She’d have to take their word for it. All she had seen were Cam’s eyes. Truth be ...
