Punish the Sinners: A Novel

Italy, 1252Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake…Neilsville, 1978Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror.Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School―something evil.In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the town…while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has a supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to…Punish the Sinners?

About the Author

Perfect Nightmare is John Saul’s thirty-second novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy seller. His other bestselling suspense novels include Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, Nightshade, The Right Hand of Evil, The Presence, Black Lightning, Guardian, and The Homing. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling serial thriller The Blackstone Chronicles, initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.David Daoust spent several years working in radio at WBOC-Radio and TV in Salisbury, Maryland. He currently resides in Northern Michigan and teaches media-related courses, and every now and then takes on a chance to act on the stage.

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