Tormented
by Susan
Clayton-Goldner
Published: May 2,
2018
Publisher: Tirgearr
Publishing
Genre: Mystery,
Suspense, Thriller
Blurb:
Father's Anthony's devotion to God and His Church begins to
unravel the moment Rita Wittier steps inside St. Catherine’s Cathedral in San
Francisco. He struggles to control his feelings, but two years later, he is a
man obsessed.
In an attempt to rediscover the priest he intended to
become, Anthony flies back to Delaware to visit Father Timothy. If redemption
can be found anywhere, surely it can be found in the church of his childhood
and in the soothing Irish brogue of his former mentor.
The months pass, 60 Minutes does a special on Father Anthony
and the Shepherd Academy—a school he started for disadvantaged children. He’s
become a national hero— nicknamed the Good Shepherd. But he can’t get Rita out
of his mind. He wants her more than anything—even God—and can no longer deny
it. Six hours after he tell her how he feels, Rita is found dead in her car
from an apparent suicide. Or is it murder?
My Review:
A priest falls in love with one of his parishioners and
decides to leave the church so that he can spend the rest of his life with her.
After making his decision Father Anthony makes a trip to Rita’s home to tell
her how he feels about her and of his plans to leave the church.
A little girl, nine years old comes home from school worried
about getting mad at her mom before she left for school that morning she wants
to tell her mother that she is sorry for their argument that morning but when
she gets home something is off her mother is not there to meet her like she is
every day when she returns from school something her mother would never do even
if she was mad at her. Her mother loved her more than anything or anyone.
A few hours after Father Anthony leaves the home of woman he
loves he gets a phone call from her nine year old daughter Connie telling him
that her mother is hurt and can he come over and make her better.
Tormented is the perfect title for this novel as it fits
more than one of the characters as they each have a past that haunts them all
for different reasons.
Wow! I don’t know what to say but that Susan has gone and
done it again, wrote another best seller. Susan knows how to write a book that
is filled with action, mystery and, suspense from the first page and that will
keep you hooked right up until the end and long after. Every time I read one of
her books I follow all the clues and listen real close so that I can guess whodunit
but guess what I have yet to accomplish that task. I don’t think that is even
possible with her books anymore I have given up trying to figure out whodunit. But
I will never give up on reading a book that she has wrote I don’t even need to
read the summary any more. No they are that good.
If you love a good mystery then you are going to love Tormented
as it is full of mystery and suspense. And while you are at it give Susan’s
other books a try as well. But I give you fair warning set aside a few hours of
your day before reading that first page as you won’t be able to put it down.
No, once I picked up Tormented and read that first page that was it I was a
goner. The next thing I knew I had devoured the whole book in a few hours.
AUTHOR BIO:
Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New
Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware
River. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Creative Writing
Program and has been writing most of her life. Her novels have been finalists
for The Hemingway Award, the Heeken Foundation Fellowship, the Writers
Foundation and the Publishing On-line Contest. Susan won the National Writers'
Association Novel Award twice for unpublished novels and her poetry was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared in numerous
literary journals and anthologies including Animals as Teachers and Healers,
published by Ballantine Books, Our Mothers/Ourselves, by the Greenwood
Publishing Group, The Hawaii Pacific Review-Best of a Decade, and New
Millennium Writings. A collection of her poems, A Question of Mortality was released in 2014 by Wellstone Press.
Prior to writing full time, Susan worked as the Director of Corporate Relations
for University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Susan
shares a life in Grants Pass, Oregon with her husband, Andreas, her fictional
characters, and more books than one person could count.
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