{"product_id":"a-crime","title":"A Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Georges Bernanos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Crime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes up the thread of Bernanos’s novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Bad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, as the village of Mégère and its new parish priest contend with murder. The ostensibly tranquil state of the French countryside is shattered with the discovery of two corpses: Madame Beauchamp, the victim of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Bad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and a mysterious stranger. As the collaborative force of police and priest find themselves at an investigative impasse, Bernanos draws the reader deep into the whirlpool that crime creates, one “which invincibly attracts to its center the innocent and the guilty.” In those enigmatic, forbidding depths, Bernanos reveals the spiritual destruction which preceded the murders and the shocking identity of their perpetrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImbued with the requisite murder-mystery atmosphere of unsettling suspicion and sudden violence,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Crime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a reckoning with good and evil which only the spiritual genius of Bernanos could devise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Bernanos\u003c\/b\u003e (1888–1948) was a French author and critic, and winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1936 (for his novel \u003ci\u003eA Diary of a Country Priest\u003c\/i\u003e). A devout Roman Catholic, Bernanos wrote numerous novels, stories, and essays on the nature of faith, society, and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎978-1952826788\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100032262511,"sku":"‎978-1952826788","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--507.jpg?v=1781124686","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/a-crime","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}