The Churchgoer - Patrick Coleman
Category: Crime
Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Tags: Crime, Thriller
A haunting literary noir about a former pastors search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California., He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back., In Mark Hainess former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family manuntil he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now hes marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crashtwo cynical kindred spirits., Then his co-worker is murdered in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night. Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of solitude. Instead, hes driven to find out where Cindy went, under stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads, each
