Venice Beach Psalms

Peter Blair is three days sober when Declan Fury walks into his Echo Park office, a space that smells of "old coffee and new regret". Fury, the gaunt, aging lead singer of a bygone punk rock band, is desperate. His daughter, Siobhan, grieving the recent death of her mother, has vanished into the world of Prophet Emmett Cain, a charismatic preacher running a "ministry" for the lost souls and homeless of Venice Beach. Her last message was a cryptic text: ...