Hell on Church Street

A small Baptist church in Arkansas should be easy pickings for a natural born con man like Geoffrey Webb. But after talking himself into a cushy job as a youth minister, he becomes obsessed with the preacher’s teenage daughter. When their relationship is discovered by a corrupt local sheriff named Doolittle Norris, Webb’s easy life begins to fall apart. Backed by a family of psychotic hillbillies, Sheriff Norris forces Webb into a deadly scheme to embezzle money from the church. What the Norris clan doesn’t understand is that Geoffrey Webb is more dangerous than he looks, and he has brutal plans of his own.

Jake Hinkson is the author of the award-winning novels Hell On Church Street and No Tomorrow, the short story collection The Deepening Shade, and the essay collection The Blind Alley: Exploring Film Noir’s Forgotten Corners. His books have been translated into French and Italian, and he is the 2018 recipient of France's prestigious Grand Prix de littérature policière (for No Tomorrow), as well as the 2016 recipient of the Prix Mystère de la critique (for Hell On Church Street). Born in Arkansas and raised in the Ozarks, he currently lives in Chicago.