Chant of Death, A Father Malachi Mystery
08/16/10By Susan Elliott
Monks become rock stars! Chant of Death is set in a fictional Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana, where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. When murder breaks out, Father Malachi finds his powers stretched to the limit in an effort to protect the innocent and identify the killer.
Chant of Death, authored by Diane Marquart Moore and Isabel Anders, is now available. Chant of Death was released by Pinyon Publishing in Montrose, Colorado on 8/11/2010 (6 x 9 paperback, 152 pages, $15.00). For more information, please contact susanelliott@pinyon-publishing.com. In Chant of Death, the traditional Seven Deadly Sins, are fleshed out in a complex, unfolding narrative of suspicion, darkness, and deceit. Lives and philosophies conflict, setting off deadly sparks—where pious faith and ancient superstition often mingle seamlessly; where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. PRAISE FOR CHANT OF DEATH SUSANNA METZ, Dir. of Center for Small Churches, School of Theology, University of the South: "Who would ever suspect that a monastery where a group of monks make glorious music could be anything less than heaven! But their successful CD, Godspeak, brings them more than wealth, it opens up what can only be imagined as the gates of hell. Don't pick up this mind-grabbing mystery unless you want to be transported into a world of intrigue, psychological fear, and the dark side of human nature. Does goodness win? You find out!" AUTHOR BIOS DIANE MARQUART MOORE is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and news articles. She has published 26 books, and her short stories and poetry have been featured in publications including The Southwestern Review, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and The Xavier Review. Her young adult fiction, Martin’s Quest, was a finalist in the Heekins Foundation Award for Best Children’s Fiction. Moore studied Creative Writing with Ernest Gaines at ULL. She was a former editor of Acadiana Lifestyle and has written for The Daily Iberian, The Acadiana Profile magazine, and the Yaddasht Haftegy. She authors a blog entitled A Words Worth. Retired Archdeacon of Episcopal Diocese of W. Louisiana, Moore lives part of the year in New Iberia, Louisiana, and part of the year in Sewanee, Tennessee. ISABEL ANDERS is also the author of more than 20 books for adults, children, and young adults, including the award-winning book: Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom, with a Foreword by Phyllis Tickle; Awaiting the Child: An Advent Journal, with an Introduction by Madeleine L’Engle; Soul Moments: Times When Heaven Touches Earth; The Faces of Friendship; and 40-Day Journey with Madeleine L’Engle. For further information, visit www.isabelanders.com.
DARREL BOURQUE, Poet Laureate of Louisiana: "Chant of Death is a remarkable piece of storytelling: grounded in the real and the observable but connected as well to the magical and the ineffable. Diane Marquart Moore and Isabel Anders are rare intelligences in the world of mystery writers. They have woven a tale that is at once a traditional mystery with nods here and there to the best of the writers in the genre. But they have also written a thoroughly contemporary work that explores the medieval church as well as the challenges faced by the post-modern church, the vagaries and varieties of every kind of love imaginable, the consolations of both philosophy and modern psychology, the lures and temptations of both monastic life and life on the outside. This work is engrossing and satisfying, a tapestry one can more easily enter than leave behind. Rich, expansive, masterfully plotted to please the broadest spectrum of readers."
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