New Book! (shameless self-promotion)
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Sorry for the self-plug, but I'm kind of excited about this...
A gay pastor. His world-famous violin-maker husband. Murder. Suicide. Sexual abuse, blackmail, and long-buried secrets. Church folks at their best and worst. Old-school and modern gay bars, and even a protective, mysterious drag queen, all rolled together in intriguing, tightly written mystery. What more could a person ask?
SINNER'S PRAYER
Release date April 6, 2026The remains of a highly regarded church member who disappeared
without a trace almost forty years earlier are found buried in the
basement of Parkvale Presbyterian Church in Louisville. Almost
immediately after the discovery, another much-beloved former
member dies by suicide at a lonely scenic roadside overlook. Are the
two deaths related?Presbyterian minister Dan Randolph has been pondering his legacy as
retirement nears. Now, he’s got to deal with the murder, too, which
hasn’t just dug up bones, but also long-held secrets of misconduct,
sexual abuse, and scandal—along with angry demands for his own
ouster, claiming he’s mishandled the situation.Follow Dan and his violin-making husband Greg Zhu through a
mystery that makes its way through southwestern Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston as well as their hometown of
Louisville. Who killed the man in the basement—and why?
PRAISE FOR SINNER'S PRAYER:
"Sinner’s Prayer is a haunting, deeply compassionate mystery about what we choose to see—and what we work hard not to. As a long-buried crime resurfaces within a church community, Dwain Lee weaves together faith, grief, and moral reckoning with quiet precision. The story lingers not just in its suspense, but in the questions it leaves behind: about trust, responsibility, and how easily the past can hide in plain sight."
- FRANK ANTHONY POLITO, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Domestic Partners in Crime
"Sinner's Prayer is a thoughtful, gripping book that asks important questions like those its minister protagonist Dan Randolph must struggle every day to answer. In this worthy follow-up to Plausible Deception, Dwain Lee has crafted a story that takes the appealing Randolph and his equally appealing husband Greg Zhu through the fallout of decades of dark secrets, looking for the light that is the hope of every sinner's prayer.”
- MARY ANNA EVANS, Benjamin Franklin Award-winning author of The Dark Library
The book will be available in all the usual places online - but the best possible place you could buy it is the author's website and online store, where you can pre-order the paperback and buy the ebook now:
[www.dwainlee-author.weebly.com](link url)
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