{"product_id":"parishioner-walter-mosley-9780802168092","title":"Parishioner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Walter Mosley is on my Mount Rushmore of crime fiction.\"--S.A. Cosby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of contemporary literature's pre-eminent crime novelists.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrooks make the best detectives. They know how the guilty think and where the guilty hide.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom bestselling \"master of the genre\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) Walter Mosley, a thrilling novel about a hardened criminal who regrets his violent past--but whose only hope for redemption is to sin again\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a small town between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, a simple white-stone church sits atop a hill. It belongs to no denomination. Its priest, Father Frank, never speaks of God. The members of his congregation have broken every one of the commandments. They have gathered here to seek forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXavier Rule--Ecks to his friends--didn't come to California searching for salvation. A thief and a killer on the run from the law, he expected to disappear. But under Father Frank's strange ministry, Ecks has started to forgive himself and others for past misdeeds. Then Benol Richards walks through the door. Twenty-three years ago, she helped her lover kidnap three baby boys and sold them on the black market--she has carried the guilt with her ever since. Now she wants to know what became of the children, and Father Frank gives Ecks the job of finding out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrooks make the best detectives. They know how the guilty think and where the guilty hide. But if Ecks is to pick up this trail and follow where it leads, he will have to fight his old, lethal instincts--and know when justice demands he give in to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Mosley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802168094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802168092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atlantic Crime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Walter Mosley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852872659199,"sku":"9780802168092","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/parishioner-walter-mosley-9780802168092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}