• Punish the Sinners

  • A Novel
  • By: John Saul
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
  • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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Punish the Sinners

By: John Saul
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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Publisher's summary

Italy, 1252

Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake....

Neilsville, 1978

Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror.

Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School - something evil.

In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the town...while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual.

Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has a supernatural force, a 13th-century madness, returned to...Punish the Sinners?

©1978 John Saul (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Not bad

the narration was perfect for this type of book and it was good had me at the edge of my seat I'm used to horror this wasn't really horror but a lot of suspense.

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Disappointing

I’ve enjoyed many of John Saul’s books. This, however, was a struggle - sheer will - to complete. Very disappointed.

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John Saul definitely has better books than this one

The story just wasn’t great. Probably because I worked in a convent for 12 miserable years and learned way to much about nuns who don’t practice what they preach. I’m surprised I made it through the book.

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Very disappointed

I’m a fan of John Saul, but this book was a huge disappointment. The whole religious aspect with the perverse priest was just too much

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