The Ordained - Hardcover

Faherty, Terence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312169582 ISBN 13: 9780312169589

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Owen Keane visits Rapture, Indiana, a town founded by an adventist sect who believed that the world would end in 1844, and must discover why, 150 years later, the sect's descendants are suddenly disappearing, one by one

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Review:

When the rapture comes, believers say, the faithful will be lifted bodily up to heaven while sinners will be left behind to endure Armageddon. In the little Indiana town of Rapture, Armageddon seems to be just around the corner as townspeople mysteriously disappear. The police suspect drug-related murder; Owen Keane, a former seminarian, isn't so sure. In The Ordained, author Terence Faherty mixes faith and crime to come up with an unusual mystery tale. The story begins with Keane's return to Indiana to testify at the parole hearing of a man he helped convict many years before; what begins as a moral obligation becomes personal when he meets the convicted man's daughter and falls in love. The strange disappearances in Rapture reawaken Keane's religious sensibilities, but when his girlfriend also vanishes, he must balance faith and skepticism in order to find the truth.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Rapture, Indiana, got its name from the millennialist prophets who planned to use it as their point of departure for the world's end. But now, 150 years after the Ordained of God were disappointed, it seems as if the rapture may finally have arrived after all. Dr. Krystal Bowden, the grown-up daughter of Curtis Morell, the remorseless killer seminarian-turned-shamus Owen Keane helped to lock up in The Lost Keats (1993), wants Owen to come out to Rapture to investigate the disappearance of elderly herbalist Prestina Shipe, evidently carried off in the middle of her breakfast. Even in the brief time Owen spends among the farms and herbs and handmade coffins that are Rapture's current stock-in-trade, there's a second disappearance, and then, while Owen's back is turned, a third--Krystal herself. Did she take off to avoid prosecution along with the rest of the methamphetamine ring her highly suspicious lover, DEA agent Steve Fallon, is tracking? Were the disappearances a case of alien abduction, as ufologist Marietta Feasey gravely tells Owen? Or is Curtis Morell, safely locked away in a Michigan City prison, somehow behind it all? Short, stark, and sparsely peopled with angularly fascinating figures: Faherty's portrait of Rapture has all the fine black-and-white detail you'd expect from a mid-century daguerreotype. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312169582
• ISBN 13: 9780312169589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264