The series begins with ‘The Good Thief,’ which tells the story of Dismas, the ‘good thief’ crucified with Jesus and pardoned by Him on Good Friday. It is a powerful tale of a young Jewish man’s determination to avenge the unjust deaths of his brother and sister. His quest drives him from Rebekah, the woman he loves, and propels him on a desperate and fateful journey.
In ‘On the Road to Damascus: The Story of Rebekah and Lucius,’ Rebekah and other early followers of Christ are forced to flee Jerusalem steps ahead of a relentless persecution led by Saul of Tarsus. Lucius, a Roman centurion who has come to love Rebekah, races against time to save her.
In ‘Serah: The Daughter of Rebekah and Lucius,’ we meet a young Christian girl coming of age in First Century Rome. Serah struggles with a faith she knows only through the stories of her mother and father. Compelled to flee for safety to her mother’s homeland in Judea, she begins a journey that will challenge her courage, open her heart and change her life.
Reviewers have been generous in their praise for ‘The Good Thief’ series of novels:
‘A skilled storyteller, author Barry Connolly has a positive knack for engaging his reader’s total attention from first page to last.’ — Midwest Book Review
‘…Refreshingly consistent attention to period detail and atmosphere…everywhere aided by Connolly’s gift for quick, evocative description…popular religious fiction done exactly right.’ — Open Letters Monthly, Arts and Literature Review
‘Rebekah and Lucius are warmly-drawn characters…and the thread running through the whole narrative…of Christianity’s beginnings through the desperate courage of its earliest believers, binds everything together understatedly and gracefully.’ — Historical Novel Society
For more information, visit www.TheGoodThief.net or www.amazon.com/author/barryconnolly.
(SOURCE: Connolly & Company, LLC, via Christian Newswire)