Dark Debts
Karen Hall. Ivy Books, $6.99 (501pp) ISBN 978-0-8041-1655-8
Paramount Pictures bought rights to this story of a Jesuit priest grappling with unspeakable evil. (June)
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Reviewed on: 03/31/1997
Genre: Fiction
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