An Evening with Dwain Lee

A body buried in a church basement.
Dark, long-hidden secrets.
A gay pastor, parishioners at their best and worst, and a fabulous, mysterious drag queen.
What more could a reader want?

Join us for an evening with Kentucky-based author, Dwain Lee, as he discusses his latest mystery, Sinner's Prayer. Critics call it "a haunting, deeply compassionate mystery about what we choose to see—and what we work hard not to."

• Admission for one, including a copy of Sinner's Prayer.
• Admission for one with a $5 voucher to use toward the purchase of Sinner's Prayer.

The remains of a highly regarded church member who disappeared without a trace almost forty years earlier are found buried in the basement of Parkvale Presbyterian Church in Louisville. Almost immediately after the discovery, another much-beloved former member dies by suicide at a lonely scenic roadside overlook. Are the two deaths related?
Presbyterian minister Dan Randolph has been pondering his legacy as retirement nears. Now, he’s got to deal with the M**der, too, which hasn’t just dug up bones, but also long-held secrets of misconduct, sexual abuse, and scandal—along with angry demands for his own ouster, claiming he’s mishandled the situation.
Follow Dan and his violin-making husband Greg Zhu through a mystery that makes its way through southwestern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston as well as their hometown of Louisville. Who killed the man in the basement—and why?

Dwain Lee is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is a graduate of Penn State University and Trinity Lutheran Seminary. Before entering the ministry, he was an architect in private practice for many years, mostly in Columbus, Ohio.

Lee and his husband currently live in Louisville, Kentucky, where he works, writes, supports the arts, and is active in various forms of social justice advocacy. He has two daughters he is immensely proud of, enjoys travel, gardening, home repair, camping, and yoga, and is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.