Dark Sonnet
by Bill Dohar and Tom McCarthy
Art on page 50 by Stefan Salinas
A Jesuit priest unearths a tattered poetic manuscript from the nineteenth century. Against universal scorn, he makes the outrageous claim that it contains a series of word puzzles pointing to the whereabouts of the Cuxham Chalice, a priceless relic of England's medieval past.
He suddenly disappears amidst a city in nightmarish turmoil over a series of brutal slayings, and two concerned friends are determined to find him. Pulled from a failed life in Colorado back to his old Oxford college, Myles Dunn joins forces with Eva Bashir—single mother, secularized Muslim and university librarian—to unlock the manuscript’s secrets.
Battling police resistance, a shadowy Vatican agent and their own personal demons, Myles and Eva must decode the cryptic verse before the killer strikes again. Their friend’s life is not the only thing at stake. If they fail, the result will be upheaval and terror on a national and global scale...
For ages 16 and up.
ASIN : B0B4GBPK62
Publisher : De Profundis Books, LLC (June 26, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 366 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8986395210