The first editorial reviews of The Confessor are in — and both landed at five stars. Readers’ Favorite paired the first Logan Hollister thriller with two independent reviewers, and here is what they had to say.
★★★★★
“A master of the psychological thriller genre.” — Reviewed by K T Bowes for Readers’ Favorite (5 Stars)
“An excellent police thriller”
Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers’ Favorite (5 Stars)
Noah Christopher’s The Confessor follows Logan Hollister, a Los Angeles detective in Robbery-Homicide’s Special Cases Division, after a murdered nonprofit director is found with a handwritten confession on his desk. The victim, David Kirsch, had stolen from a veterans’ foundation, but the killer’s method soon appears again when influencer Jack Ralston dies after being made to write out his own lies. Logan works with partner Curt Alton and homicide boss Okoro as the press names the killer The Confessor, a man who hunts public fraudsters and turns their secrets into last words. After a respected pastor enters the pattern, Logan begins to question whether the killer is uncovering truth or creating his own. The city needs him to find a man whose idea of justice has become deadly.
“Justice doesn’t ask permission from the powerful.” Noah Christopher’s The Confessor is an excellent police thriller, and Christopher gives Logan Hollister the kind of detective mind I love, where every detail has to be tested before it can mean anything. That quality shows beautifully through ancillary characters too, like Esther Falk, the retired school principal from Grace Kimball’s church, whose memory turns a room of strangers into the first usable outline of the killer. Curt Alton is the perfect partner for Logan. The author makes him dry enough to steady the darkness, and sharp enough to do the hardest parts of police work. Christopher is a highly skilled and polished writer, and lovers of police procedurals with a relentless detective should put this at the top of their list.
“I found it difficult to put down”
Reviewed by K T Bowes for Readers’ Favorite (5 Stars)
Logan Hollister is a cop who doesn’t play by the rules. Backed by his own personal fortune, he catches criminals because he loves the hunt. It makes him the perfect adversary for The Confessor, who believes himself to be a righteous vigilante. People are dying after leaving behind written lists of their financial crimes. The murder scenes display perfection and intention, crafted by an analytical mind that leaves no identifying evidence. And each of the confessions is true. Logan pulls on every resource he has until he finds himself in a personal, psychological battle with the killer. In a series of anonymous letters, both conceal their motives, and neither can step out from behind their respective masks—not the cop and not the killer. Noah Christopher’s The Confessor is a page turner.
Noah Christopher is a master of the psychological thriller genre. I fell so deeply into the dogma of The Confessor that I sympathized with his kills—until I didn’t. The author expertly plays on the moral ache for justice until the reader recognizes the essence of The Confessor within themselves. The Confessor tests the boundaries of society, purging it of parasites. I found myself initially cheering him on. The character of Logan Hollister acts as the scales of justice when righteousness tips into pure evil, and the author turns the philosophical mirror back on the reader. There’s a phenomenal depth of understanding of human nature woven throughout the plot. The premise of a confessional at the heart of the intrigue is unique and very clever. This was an excellent read, and I found it difficult to put down.
Read The Confessor today.
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