A puzzle-box mystery of bigotry, faith and redemption...

...A perplexing thriller that unnerves and inspires

DARK SONNET

Thomas McCarthy

Tom has been a lifelong student of language and mystery. He needed a certain facility with both in order to survive his childhood in Omaha as the eighth of nine children, a blessing from which he sought frequent refuge in the Hardy Boys, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Tolkien and Dickens. Apparently, Jesuit high school and university wasn’t quite enough of the Jesuits, because while earning a Master’s degree in English at Oxford he spent two years living in a Jesuit community. When he wasn’t imbibing Oxford’s heady mixture of medieval tradition and contemporary élan, he could be found bicycling along Europe’s back roads and, on one unfortunate occasion, the Autobahn.