Loraine Carole Tulleken

The Judas Effect Loraine Carole Tulleken

"A very entertaining page turner. I more than anything found how the inner workings of the church can be cut throat and hierarchical. WOW!" Kagiso Mnisi, South African writer and content curator "A compelling read. A mixture of ecclesiastical politics, crime intrigue, international links and underworld connections opens this book to a large readership. It is helpful also that the book deals with the issue of human sexuality from a very personal space, the family." - Very Reverend ZA (Dinga) Mpunzi, Dean at the Cathedral of St Michael & All Angels, Queenstown "Shades of Susan Howatch" - Susan Germond When the bishop of Johannesburg and the wife of a powerful Chinese magnate are murdered in a Sandton hotel room the case is quickly swept under the carpet on instruction from someone in Government. It is assumed that the Anglican Church will be relived. Wrong. The victims are high level environmental activists and Archbishop Shakes Khumalo, a former advocate, suspects corruption. Determined to see justice done, he risks being defrocked as he gathers a team to solve a mystery with threads that stretch from Soweto to Shanghai and North Korea. It's a trail that reconnects him with boyhood friends, one a senior government official the other a nightclub owner with underworld connections and, not least, his first love. AUTHOR'S BIO A former political journalist, Loraine Tulleken is an irreverent Anglican priest who trained in Soweto and served as Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane's international media liaisons and speechwriter for seven years. While the fictitious Archbishop Shakes Khumalo in her mystery series and the rest of the cast of characters bear no resemblance to any real people, her writing is underpinned by a deep understanding of the Church