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By Ward Kelley

Divine Murder

Underworld Conspiracy Plot

Join Warren and Zoe as they visit the underworld in this conspiracy fantasy. Reviews say: Ward Kelley’s Divine Murder is an odyssey on a par with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

Reviews:

Ward Kelley’s first novel is a deliriously inventive theological thriller. It’s sassy, intelligent, charming and phantasmagorical. – Tony Grist, New Hope International

Divine Murder is a fascinating look into humanity’s relationship with God and its own destiny. – Elizabeth Burton, The Blue Iris Journal

Ward Kelley’s Divine Murder is an odyssey on a par with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. His style of examining circumstance and perpetuity and the graves we dig in terms of soul is a cross between C.S. Lewis and Dante, an engaging mix of speculation and inner truth. Kelley’s poetic pen has an eroticism reminiscent of Nabokov, where scenery is more than scenery. It is a playground for temptation and a test of moral cues.

Best Selling Author

Ward Kelley 

Ward Kelley has seen his stories and poems appear in hundreds of journals world wide. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee whose publication credits include such journals as: Plainsongs, Karamu, Another Chicago Magazine, Strange Horizons, Spillway, GSU Review, Rattle, The Chaffin Journal, Midstream, Zuzu’s Petals, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Pif, Whetstone, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, Potpourri and Skylark. The recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001, Kelley is also the author of “histories of souls,” a poetry collection, and he has an epic poem, “comedy incarnate” on CD and CD ROM.

Kelley holds a Masters of Creative Writing. He published two novels “Divine Murder” and “Keenly Alive, Tony.” He also published two management theory books, “Warehouse Productivity” (2005Distribution Group, New York NY), and “Zen of Warehouse Management” (2005Distribution Group, New York NY), under the name Pat Kelley.

Other Books

history of souls

2nd Edition: poetry concerning magical realism, reincarnation, metaphysics

Keenly Alive

Tony: A humorous quest for eternity. Tony is a modern – or perhaps metaphysical – romance, between a successful real estate developer and a too-conscientious social worker.

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Gnarled Bones Lyrics and the Poems that Inspired the Lyrics! Plus get a Free Bonus Chapter of “histories of the souls” which can be found on Ward Kelley’s Authors page.

Divine Murder

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Kelley opens the novel near the sea, travels through a veritable galaxy of emotion, and the reader falls in love with the complexity of both his protagonists and his villains. In Divine Murder, you will meet both the devil and the god, the beams of light and the complex shades of darkness, but they are at times indistinguishable, and rightly so. It’s the reader’s job to intuit and draw the line, which adds nothing but fascination to the experience of reading this book. Science fiction has never seen such a startling command of both the earthly and the imaginative.

– Janet I. Buck, author of Calamity’s Quilt

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A preternatural foray into the very depths of human nature and the soul, Divine Murder elicits disbelief suspended by the vivid resonance experienced by the reader. You’ll meet up with demonic devils and perfect angels. Ardent infidelity and steadfast loyalty will bring philosophical epiphanies, and there’s ample underlying treachery with an appropriate dose of graphic violence. After all, the task at hand is the murder of God, a deed so diabolical it floods the mind with metaphysical questions.

– Excerpted from David M. Jackson, Artvilla.com

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Divine Murder is a fascinating look into humanity’s relationship with God and its own destiny.

– Elizabeth Burton, The Blue Iris Journal

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One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a long time. Like all great epics, it deserves the big screen.

– David M. Jackson, Artvilla