The Righteous, Michael Wallace
The Righteous, Michael Wallace
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The Righteous

Author: Michael Wallace

Narrator: Arielle DeLisle

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2012


Synopsis

Deep in the Utah desert, the small polygamous community of Blister Creek has a history of protecting its own. Even when a young woman is brutally murdered just blocks from her home, the residents of the conservative enclave close ranks. But just because they don’t want outside law enforcement in their business doesn’t mean the murder will go unpunished. More than a thousand miles away, Jacob Christianson, a medical student and son of a devout church elder, learns of his cousin Amanda’s murder. Though Jacob is skeptical of many of the community’s fundamentalist beliefs, his sharply analytical mind and family connection to the victim earns him the assignment of investigator into Amanda’s death. Jacob heads to Blister Creek, accompanied by his inquisitive younger sister, Eliza, to probe the bizarre circumstances of their cousin’s violent death. It doesn’t take long for the pair to realize that Amanda’s murder was no random act; rather, it is part of a covert plot to overthrow the church’s leaders. Chilling and engrossing, The Righteous has been hailed as a “first rate suspense thriller,” a tightly plotted novel about the dark secrets hiding behind the veil of religion.

About Michael Wallace

Michael Wallace was born in California and raised in a small religious community in Utah, eventually heading east to live in New England. An experienced world traveler, he has trekked through the Andes, ventured into the Sahara on a camel, and traveled through Thailand by elephant. In addition to working as a literary agent and innkeeper, he previously worked as a software engineer for a Department of Defense contractor, programming simulators for nuclear submarines.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on October 09, 2012

This series is so terrible and I keep reading it. This one features as much over the top violence as the others but was much less rape obsessed (yay). Author continues to work out issues with women and basically breaks his arm patting himself on the back for admitting they are people.......more

Goodreads review by Christine on June 14, 2018

This series keeps me wanting more of these characters I enjoyed this book, another page turner that you could read in a sitting. You can tell it was left side I own for another book and I am anxiously awaiting to read it already.......more

Goodreads review by Martha Dahlin on March 22, 2021

Good Exciting Read I enjoyed the previous books and this was just as enjoyable. Not being of any Mormon persuasion I found these interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 31, 2012

"The Blessed and the Damned" is the latest in Michael Wallace's Blister Creek series. It's the story of two warring fundamentalist LDS cults, replete with competing "prophets," sister wives ... the whole shebang. It also has overtones of the Branch Davidian compound, as each of the warring sects has......more


Quotes

“Deeply engrossing! Michael Wallace delivers the thinking man’s thriller while establishing one of the freshest male leads in crime fiction—Jacob Christianson, an aspiring doctor and cult elder’s favored son.” —Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Live to Tell

“…The Righteous is a page-turner with characters complex enough to wrestle with questions about living in a patriarchal, polygamous society in the 21st century…Wallace takes a page from Stephen King, using descriptions of violence strong enough to upset in a way violence should, but leaving enough unsaid to allow imagination to fill in the gaps (or not).” —Laura Compton, AML