Tripping Up the Church Steps: A Novel

TRIPPING UP THE CHURCH STEPS

By Jillian R. Fisk

A Southern Gothic murder mystery with a wicked sense of humor.

**TRIGGER WARNING: S/A, violence, adult themes, alcohol use

When Earline Walker discovers that her teenage daughter has been betrayed by the town’s beloved preacher, she does what any unhinged, furious Southern mama at the end of her rope might do: she throws on her housecoat and slippers, grabs a revolver, and heads straight to church.

Unfortunately, the preacher ends up dead, Earline confesses to murder, and the good people of Filcher’s Gulch, Alabama, have enough scandal to keep the gossip flowing until Judgment Day.

But in a town where everybody knows everybody’s business—and nobody’s telling the whole truth—things aren’t nearly as simple as they seem.

Packed with eccentric characters, deliciously dark humor, and secrets hiding behind Sunday smiles, Tripping Up the Church Steps proves that hell hath no fury like a Southern mama protecting her child.