SOCIAL SCIENCES

Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel

by Victoria Christopher Murray

Touchstone. Feb. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9781501134104. $15; ebk. ISBN 9781501134111. F

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Prolific novelist and NAACP Image Award winner Murray considers one sin in particular (the titular lust) and its deadly consequences in a story about a sheltered Washington, DC, woman, her fiancé, and his childhood best friend who has plans for payback. (African American Fiction, ow.ly/UuON306KFnf)

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Jan 01, 2017

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