All is Well

<p><strong>Christine Wright is having a bad day.</strong></p><p>She's an ex-special forces soldier a recovering alcoholic and now a freshly minted church minister whose first act of ministry is to cover up a murder. Maybe her reflexes are a little too twitchy for parish life.</p><p></p><p>From the opening page <em>All Is Well</em> races through cover-ups and confessions-from a body hastily buried behind the rectory to a furious parishioner desperate to keep her beloved church alive in an indifferent secular world. Shadowing Christine's every move is a terminally ill military cop determined to bring her to justice.</p><p></p><p>If you like your priests and their sermons filled with comfortable pious assertions if your soul cries out for order and propriety you might not warm up to Christine Wright-<em>but I did</em>. Readers out there hang on for a dazzling ride and a howling good time. This is a novelist's debut to remember.</p><p>-DAVID CARPENTER award-winning author of <em>Welcome to Canada</em> and <em>The Gold</em></p><p></p><p>Among the novel's many revelations is how quickly we find ourselves rooting for the flawed irreverent Christine-a woman who cannot fake holiness even when her life depends on it.</p><p></p><p>Mystic Julian of Norwich-she of the famous All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well is the patron saint of this wickedly funny novel.</p><p></p><p><strong>Shortlisted by Crime Writers of Canada for Best First Crime Novel 2022</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Katherine Walker is a Canadian novelist and military chaplain. Her work explores faith our modern world and the ways light still finds us in the dark.</em></p>