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An Essential Evil

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An Essential Evil is a stand-alone short story by mystery writers Diane Marquart Moore and Isabel Anders, authors of the full-length mystery Chant of Death.

Serving also as a Prequel to Chant of Death, An Essential Evil introduces Malachi Marchand in his previous life as a clinical psychiatrist—successful in his vocation, but unable to deal with his deranged wife, Virginia.

In this prequel, the cataclysmic beginning of Malachi's vocation as Abbot of St. Andrew’s, a Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana is revealed. Get to know Malachi, learn of his excruciating and perilous relationship and how the demands of his marriage lead to his journey of the soul. An Essential Evil reveals in compelling detail the inner workings of a crisis of spirit that underlies this hero’s journey.

In the full-length mystery, Chant of Death, murder rears its ugly head amid struggles over the monks’ profits from a chart-topping Chant recording. As Malachi becomes accustomed to hearing the echoes and enduring the strains of a haunting Chant of Death, would he, a former secular outsider, be up to the challenge of clerical detective?

Pages: 21

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Border Press

Release: October 15, 2011

An Essential Evil

4/5 ( ratings)

An Essential Evil is a stand-alone short story by mystery writers Diane Marquart Moore and Isabel Anders, authors of the full-length mystery Chant of Death.

Serving also as a Prequel to Chant of Death, An Essential Evil introduces Malachi Marchand in his previous life as a clinical psychiatrist—successful in his vocation, but unable to deal with his deranged wife, Virginia.

In this prequel, the cataclysmic beginning of Malachi's vocation as Abbot of St. Andrew’s, a Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana is revealed. Get to know Malachi, learn of his excruciating and perilous relationship and how the demands of his marriage lead to his journey of the soul. An Essential Evil reveals in compelling detail the inner workings of a crisis of spirit that underlies this hero’s journey.

In the full-length mystery, Chant of Death, murder rears its ugly head amid struggles over the monks’ profits from a chart-topping Chant recording. As Malachi becomes accustomed to hearing the echoes and enduring the strains of a haunting Chant of Death, would he, a former secular outsider, be up to the challenge of clerical detective?

Pages: 21

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Border Press

Release: October 15, 2011

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