The Confessional

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.

The confessional was perfect. It was intended to be turned into an inside phone booth for their Victorian home. It was possibly the worst purchase of their lives.

The confessional was gone! How was this possible? Who would remove his sacred place? The one place where he could confess his terrible sins, or relive them. He would find it – and punish those that dared to interfere with his set ritual of using that particular confessional.

The Confessional was a whirlwind of emotions and ultimately an enjoyable read for me. Sarah is psychic. It isn’t something that she had shared with her husband David, but it was an integral part of her life for as long as she could remember. At first she wasn’t surprised, truly, to hear voices from their new confessional. After all, it did come from a church that was over 100 years old. A lot of people had passed through that confessional over the years. But soon the voices faded until there was only one voice. The voice of a sexual predator, a murderer who wants his confessional returned. Now begins a race to find a killer and save her own life.

I found this to be a relatively fast paced mystery. Ms Pierson’s descriptive style of writing certainly painted a vivid picture of what was happening and how Sarah was reacting throughout the story. Sarah has a lot on her plate in this novel – an unrelenting voice full of evil, her husband’s disbelief in her abilities and her own self-doubts along the way. An emotional read is a very good description of how I felt as I devoured this novel.

I enjoyed it and would give it a 4 outta 5 rating. If you love mysteries with a touch of the unusual then I suspect you would enjoy The Confessional.

*I received an e-ARC of The Confessional from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

Description

Sarah Tazewell, a cerebral, highly intuitive woman, knew from an early age that she was psychic. When she and her husband David buy a confessional booth from The Governor’s Antiques in Mechanicsville, VA and convert it into a phone booth for their Queen Anne Victorian, Sarah senses a presence in the confessional. Later, the voices become only one voice: 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 a ritual of murder and confession. The confessional in the 100-year-old church where he confessed was an integral part of the ritual. When he comes to confess after another murder, he finds “his” confessional gone and begins a frantic search to find it.

My Book Review

This is a book that from the first couple of paragraph pulls you in and makes you want to keep reading and not stop until you have finished the last page. We find an serial murderer who likes to confess his sins in the same confessional after every time he kills. After a fire in the church the confessional box is sold to Sarah Tazwell and her husband who converted it into a phone booth. Sarah starts to hear voices when she is in the booth that begin to sound like confessions. This is were things start to get real interesting. She starts to looking to the history of the confessional. This book has murder mystery and spooky feel to it. It is well worth the five stars I am giving it. I will be recommending this to all my friends.

I was given this by Netgalley for review.