The Catholic Writers Guild

THE SOUL READER IS FINALIST IN USA BOOK NEWS BEST BOOKS 2011 AWARD


USA Book News selected Gerard Webster’s The Soul Reader: A Novel of Suspense (WestBow Press, 2011) as a finalist in Religious Fiction for the Best Books 2011 Award. The Soul Reader is a sequel to In-Sight, Webster’s first novel. 


A Catholic suspense thriller, The Soul Reader, follows Ward McNulty and his ex-love Carrie in investigating a money-laundering scheme. Ward’s special gift, the ability to see other people’s souls, helps him to solve his father’s murder and uncover the criminal scheme that led to his death. Their investigation launches a series of events that span the globe and make Ward and Carrie the target of the most dangerous assassin in the western hemisphere, a man known only as “Culebra.”


Ellen Gable Hrkach, author of Stealing Jenny, “enjoyed the Catholic themes and the Catholic flavor of the book.” Author Maria Elena Vidal wrote “the mystery of iniquity and the mystery of divine grace strive with each other for mastery” in The Soul Reader. Richard R. Blake of www.readerviews.com said The Soul Reader is “a well-pace suspense novel…(with) distinctive three-dimensional characters, intrigue, mystery, romance and mounting suspense.”


The Soul Reader has also been approved for the Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval.


The Soul Reader and In-Sight are available through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, or the publisher, WestBow Press, or at the author’s website www.Gerard-Webster.com. You can also find The Soul Reader on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in paperback, hardcover and on Kindle. 


Gerard has been a Peace Corp volunteer, a soldier, a businessman and an addictions counselor. Most of all he is husband to his wife, Anne, and a father to their five children. He lives with his wife in Jacksonville, Florida. 

LarissaHoffman