Dark Debts - Hardcover

Karen Hall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679451463 ISBN 13: 9780679451464

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

"TRULY FRIGHTENING."
--Chicago Tribune

There is pure evil at work, infesting the body and spirit, driving its victims to insanity, suicide, and murder. To cast it out, a Jesuit priest must take a frightening journey into the heart of a Southern family tormented by an unspeakable curse.

"HARD TO PUT DOWN."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

As he unravels three generations of secrets and battles for the very soul of the family's last surviving member, he will wrestle with his faith in the face of lust and collide with dark forces hell-bent on destroying him.

"A TERRIFICALLY AMBITIOUS BOOK."
--Newsday

Brilliantly imagined and compulsively readable, DARK DEBTS is a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller--a remarkable novel that will grip you with its nightmare vision of evil and hold you spellbound until the very last page.
From the Paperback edition.

About this title

Review:

Once you meet the Landrys of Georgia in this debut thriller by a veteran television writer, you'll never again use the words "a family from Hell" lightly. Dark Debts focuses on two couples: a Jesuit priest and reluctant demonologist named Michael Kinney, whose growing doubts about his calling are energized by an affair with a New Yorker editor; and Randa Phillips, a columnist for a Los Angeles alternative newspaper, who was the longtime lover of Cam, seemingly the sanest of the Landrys, until he killed himself, and is now involved with his only surviving brother, Jack.

About the Author:

Karen Hall grew up in Virginia and attended the College of William and Mary. She has written for and produced many of the most acclaimed television shows of the 1980s and 1990s and received Emmy Award nominations for her work on M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, and The Women of Brewster Place. Ms. Hall has also been a creative consultant on Roseanne and Grace Under Fire and written for I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure. She lives in Los Angeles and Atlanta. She also has her own web page.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679451463
• ISBN 13: 9780679451464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 405