Punish the Sinners, John Saul
Punish the Sinners, John Saul
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Punish the Sinners

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2017

Synopsis

Italy, 1252
Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake…Neilsville, 1978
Peter 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 John Saul

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on June 30, 2024

Peter Balsam (a psychology teacher) goes to Neilsville when an old friend (Monsignor Peter Vernon) asks him to come and teach psychology at St. Francis Xavier's school. When he arrives, he feels an aura of evil within the town. He eventually takes the position as teacher and finds his old friend to......more

Goodreads review by Bren fall in love with the sea. on April 20, 2020

"He resented the girls, resented the way they acted so respectful in his presence, then sneered at him from a distance. When he had been a child, such impudence had not been tolerated. The nuns had demanded respect all the time, and the boys in the convent had given it , unquestioningly". Punish the S......more

Goodreads review by Julie on November 05, 2016

**3.5** I enjoyed this book so much more than I was expecting to. Saul's writing is super easy to read and the story sucked me in from the beginning. I found the idea of the extreme Catholic Church very frightening and really enjoyed how he chose to end it. Overall I was really impressed and will de......more

Goodreads review by Josh on December 03, 2016

John Saul is among a class of horror and thriller writers I feel deserves so much more attention than he gets. I read When the Wind Blows and Suffer the Children, so I was looking forward to reading my third novel of Saul's and did so as a buddy read with Julie from A Girl and a Book on Booktube. I......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on June 15, 2024

Another winner from John Saul! 1978's Punish the Sinners is his second novel and has so many elements that make Saul great - troubled teens, cosmic/supernatural weirdness, Gothic small town vibes, and an air of mystery where you're not quite sure if some things are real or imagined - all which I lov......more

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