Jake Hinkson, author of the novella THE POSTHUMOUS MAN and
novel HELL ON CHURCH STREET returns with a new novella, SAINT HOMICIDE to
explore one man’s hidden urges and sickly sweet lust narrated with a naivety
and undercurrent of malice that demands the reader’s attention.
In a misguided attempt to serve his creator, Daniel, a
devout religious man, crosses the line between doing God’s work and being an
agent of hell. Though Hinkson outlines the ending up front; we know Daniel ends
up in prison, the writing consistently conveys a message of hope, morphing
Daniel from a criminal to good-guy to ultimately a man who deserves his place
in a cell.
The slow dilapidation and easy sway of decay that creeps
over the character as the plot ticks along grows increasing violent and truer
to the Saint Homicide moniker. Touted as a seemingly loving husband to a wife
still recovering from the mental and physical injuries of an accident, Daniel
at first looks to be the doting and caring husband his façade so alludes. Then
his sister in law goes missing and he’s asked to help find her for fear it will
burden his wife. This is where the story heads down that dark and non
returnable place...
Tracking down someone who doesn’t want to be found, being
confronted with that person performing acts you hadn’t thought them capable, and
discovering disturbing and sinister truths about the family history culminate
in Daniel undertaking a couple of brazenly violent acts that ultimately bring
him back to his present day incarceration and conclude the single shot of noir
that is SAINT HOMICIDE.If you like your noir short and black then SAINT HOMICIDE is your poison.
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