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Before becoming a full-time writer in 2000, Michael Lister was the youngest chaplain within the Florida Department of Corrections.
His seven years of prison chaplaincy bring authenticity and realism to his mystery series featuring ex-cop turned prison chaplain, John Jordan.
Michael has served as senior staff screenwriter for Triple Horse Entertainment and as a writer and editor of The Gulf County Breeze, a Florida newspaper established in 1925.
When he’s not writing, Michael serves as an adjunct professor at Gulf Coast Community College and teaches classes, conducts workshops, and speaks at conferences on writing, inspiration, and the relationship between art, life, and religion. Michael lives in northwest Florida.
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Second in the John Jordan series:
Blood of the Lamb |
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COMING IN FALL 2004
Florida prison chaplain John Jordan’s search for the peace that has so long eluded him is interrupted by an unimaginable murder. Attempting to be a good man in a very bad place while also maintaining his shaky sobriety, John investigates the murder of the seven year-old adopted daughter of ex-con turned televangelist, Bobby Earl Caldwell, a murder committed in John’s own locked office when Bobby Earl conducts a service in the Potter Correctional Institution chapel. |
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| Hard cover / $18.95 |
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| To order email us at murdermb@gate.net |
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First in the John Jordan series:
Power in the Blood |
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John Jordan, chaplain of a prison in the Florida Panhandle, witnesses the bloody death of Potter Correctional Institution inmate Ike Johnson’s dead. Jordan discovers that in the closed society of captives and captors no action goes unseen, and no one takes kindly to a cop in a collar. He soon finds his reputation, his career, and even his life are at stake. |
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| Hard cover / $50.00 |
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Signed 1st Edition, 1st printing.
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| To order email us at murdermb@gate.net |
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| Blood of the Lamb |
| by Joanne Sinchuk |
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Michael Lister’s first novel, Power in the Blood, was published by Pineapple Press in 1997 to fabulous reviews and great critical acclaim. His character John Jordan, is a prison chaplain at Potter Correctional Institution, the toughest prison in the Florida panhandle, an ex-cop, and a recovering alcoholic. Power in the Blood is a dark violent novel, both inwardly in John Jordan’s character, and outwardly in his experiences in the prison. It was a powerful read; you would never guess it was written by a man who was a prison chaplain himself.
Blood of the Lamb is the second in the John Jordan series. When an ex-con turned televangelist comes to John’s prison to preach to the inmates, he brings his wife and seven-year-old daughter. Of course this throws the whole prison into turmoil, to have a woman and young girl in their midst, whether they were singing psalms or not. And don’t even think about what it does to the rapists and child molesters. When the daughter is murdered while coloring in John’s locked and guarded office, he sets out to solve an intriguing locked room puzzle.
John Jordan is a tortured man; he is tortured by the inmates, his brother, his past life, his alcoholism, his ex-wife, his faith, and his desire for a married woman. He is a man who is basically good, but is surrounded on all sides by evil. Lister takes us into the prison environment with his descriptions of the sights and smells, the sounds in the cells at night, the atmosphere of the walls themselves, and the rampant racism of its inhabitants.
We had to wait seven years between the first and second installments of this series. I’m hoping the third will come more quickly. Bleak House Books, 2004 1st Ed 1st printing, signed by the author, 23.95
Also available:
Power in the Blood 45.00
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| You may contact Joanne Sinchuk at |
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| Posted 02-12-2004 |
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