Punish the Sinners: A Novel

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Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear.Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins realand imagined in the flames of the burning stake.Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to thissleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds amystery of mounting horror. Something is happeningto the young girls of St. Francis Xavier HighSchool -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror asuicide contagion has swept the two... while a darkorder of its holy men enacts a secret medievalritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent childreninto violent self-destruction Or has supernaturalforce, a thirteenth-century madness, returnedto... Punish The Sinners.

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John Sauls first novel,Suffer the Children, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels includePerfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, andThe Presence. He is also the author of theNew York Timesbestselling serial thrillerThe Blackstone Chronicles, initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle and Hawaii.