The Confessional by Reiny Pierson

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Blurb: SARAH TAZEWELL, A CEREBRAL, highly intuitive woman, knew from an early age that she was psychic. She and her husband David buy a church confessional from a renovator and convert it into a phone booth for their Queen Anne Victorian. Then Sarah hears jumbled voices the first time she uses the phone and senses a presence in the confessional. Before long, the voices become only one: that of a murderer that rapes and strangles his victims. Though consumed with fear and anxiety, Sarah refuses to be a victim and sets out on a journey to learn more about the confessional.

Sarah’s antagonist is a brilliant, charismatic sexual psychopath who conforms to his own rigid ritual; a ritual of murder and confession. The confessional in the 100-year-old church where he confesses is an integral part of the ritual. Before confessing, he carves the initials of his victims into the confessional wall. His confessions bring him release to begin the ritual once again. When he comes to confess after another murder, he finds “his” confessional gone and begins a frantic search to find it. What might the result of Sarah’s and his searches?

Review: The Confessional was a good, gripping read that provides the read with a few "Is it this character or that character?" opportunities throughout the book.

All of the characters are great (even the ones that wouldn't be the kind of people one would like to know if they were real) and the story had a good flow and pace that provided for a few tense moments.

I would recommend this as a read.

(Provided by Smith Publicity for review.)

(cover image and blurb (c)Reiny Pierson)