The Defilers

By Deborah Gyapong

This 2005 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award tells the story of a policewoman who finds redemption, aided by a man she suspects of murder. Linda Donner, a Boston native, travels north to rural Nova Scotia, and takes a post as a policewoman with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in hopes of finding balance in her life. Instead of a slower pace, things heat up as she becomes preoccupied with a controversial pastor she suspects is guilty of arson, murder and child abuse. She breaks into a church and finds the suspected pastor exorcising demons from a child. She believes she has caught him in the abuse act, but finds her own self powerless as she spirals into what appears to be a nervous breakdown. As she realizes she is fighting supernatural forces, she decides she must find God’s help--a God she had stopped believing in after a priest seduced her when she was a teenager. The only person who seems able to help is her chief suspect--the pastor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Castle Quay Books
• Release date: Mar 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781894860604

Deborah Gyapong

Deborah Waters Gyapong’s journalism career spans 20 years in television, print and radio, including 12 years as a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s television news and current affairs programming. In 2000, Deborah signed on as a senior communications advisor for the leader of the official opposition in the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Deborah obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Wheaton College in Norton, MA, spending her senior year at Dartmouth College. She has lived in Canada since 1975. Deborah has written two novels: The Defilers and a sequel Strongholds, as yet unpublished.