Unholy Hunger
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Evelyn Barrett wants to die. As long as her daughter's murderer dies with her, she is ready to go. Why did this man--this stranger--destroy her family? Why has he not been brought to justice? Why is she forced to live a life of anger and grief? Amid a million questions she cannot answer, Evelyn knows one thing for sure: this murderer must be punished for his crime.
Before it all, she was a successful attorney who won all the hard cases. Now that the case is personal, Evelyn will stop at nothing to seek her own version of justice. When another girl goes missing, Evelyn plows forward, ignoring the warnings from police detectives, the pleas of her grief-stricken husband, and the strange, almost supernatural tingles that tug at her. But as she follows the stench of evil, Evelyn learns that the hardest thing she will have to face may not be the death of her child after all. Perhaps the harder lesson is this: the ultimate truth--of crime and verdict, of life and death--cannot be swayed by a mother's revenge.
In this first book of a new, page-turning series, a woman will be brought to her limits before she finally recognizes the movement of the Holy Spirit and reconnects with the source of true peace.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There is something unpalatable about this inaugural novel in the Lure of the Serpent series by first-time novelist James, and it partly centers on Evelyn Barrett. Barrett's four-year-old daughter, Corinne, is abducted and murdered, and the agonized mother jumps right into craziness. Barrett screams at her mother during Corinne's funeral, steals the case file from detectives, murders a suspect, leaves her husband, discovers she can smell pedophiles, and routinely butts into police business. She's rude, demanding, and willful, too. Combine an unlikable protagonist with overwrought writing ("I let hot, voluntary tears commingle with the trickling water because even I couldn't tell which was which") and readers face trouble. Admittedly, Evelyn faces her demons and gives voice to the age-old battle between justice for wrongs and faith in God's way. But readers will find this a difficult tale to swallow and difficult to feel anything but incredulous exasperation for the main character.
