In Dark Debts, Karen Hall masterfully combines southern gothic, intimate comedy, and mystery in a wildly original theological thriller that has been a cult preferred since being published twenty years ago. Within this brand-new anniversary edition, the writer has reimagined her work. The result can be a suspenseful, irreverent, and deeply religious book that captivates from the beginning and doesn’t let go.

When Randa, a reporter for an alternative solution newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone about Dark Obligations call from her estranged enthusiast, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he’s leapt in the building to his loss of life. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered somebody in a convenience shop, but Randa does not believe Cam is usually capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam’s sibling, Jack, who is living off the grid, someplace near Atlanta, in wish of determining what really happened.

In the meantime, a Jesuit priest called Michael Kinney has been exiled from NEW YORK to the boondocks of Georgia after building controversial public statements. He offers said points that educated folks of faith are not likely to express. A lot more problematically, he provides fallen deeply in love with a woman, and the last surviving person in his family provides kept a surprising family magic formula from him.

How these people converge is area of the thrilling secret of Dark Bills, a cult favorite first published two decades ago. With this new edition, writer Karen Hall has reimaged her southern gothic story and the effect is a work of sustained power-a brilliantly noticed and suspenseful evocation from the conflict between good and evil.