David Carlson. Thomas Nelson, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-8499-4718-6
Religious studies professor Carlson investigates varieties of monastic response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. Looking for "A Word of Life" from religious communities devoted to prayerful reflection, he finds...
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David Carlson. Coffeetown, $14.95 ISBN 978-1-60381-391-4
Carlson (Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World) makes his fiction debut with this middling series launch set mainly at St. Mary of the Snows, a Trappist monastery in New Mexico’s high desert. When Detroit homicide detective...
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David Carlson. Coffeetown, $14.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-60381-395-2
The murder of a priest in front of the altar of his Detroit church reunites police lieutenant Christopher Worthy and Fr. Nicholas Fortis in Carlson’s so-so sequel to 2016’s Enter by the Narrow Gate. Fr. Spiro George was strangled with the vestment...
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David Carlson. Coffeetown, $14.95 trade paper (190p) ISBN 978-1-60381-393-8
Carlson’s workmanlike third series mystery (after 2017’s Let the Dead Bury the Dead) takes Fr. Nicholas Fortis and Detroit homicide detective Christopher Worthy to Venice, Italy: Fortis to help solve the theft of holy relics from churches and Worthy
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David Carlson and Landis Blair. First Second, $34.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-62672-676-5
The subtitle barely captures the scope of this ambitious debut graphic novel, a mix of biography, history, social commentary, literary analysis, and more. It’s a multilayered exploration of the lives of Charlie Rizzo and his father Matt, a blind man
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