Book guide
Father of Lies
A church protects its own while innocence is devoured.
Genre and trope pairingsPsychological ThrillerGaslightingPsychological ThrillerMind gamesLiterarySocial commentary
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About Father of Lies
Provost Eldon Fochs may be a predator, possessed, or protected by a church desperate to preserve its reputation. As doubt, denial and institutional power close in, Brian Evenson delivers a disturbing story of paranoia, obedience and the victims left unprotected.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- child-abuse
- pedophilia
- rape
- sexual-assault
- sexual-violence
- religious-bigotry
- domestic-abuse
- incest
- murder
