The Toby Press: David Turrill

David Turrill
*An Apology for Autumn* Jim Gudsen is just a regular guy, newly returned from the killing fields of Vietnam - cynical about life in general and religion in particular. His older brother Herkimer is different - always has been. Jim is about to find out just how different. A Lutheran minister, Herkimer is defrocked by his Church for his refusal to expel a gay couple from his conservative congregation. In the process of reevaluating his beliefs, Gudsen claims that God has spoken directly to him, and told him he must "Gather the Twelve" - and do so before his wife Megan succumbs to the ravages of cancer... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-090-7, Pages: c.450, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95 Publication date: September 2004 More Info...
*Long in the Tooth* Tin’s brother Satchel was a phenomenal baseball talent on the verge of his major league debut when he took his fiancée to meet his brother. He couldn’t have known what would happen; that Tin and Wendy would fall in love and break his heart. Faced with such a betrayal, he simply disappears. Despite this rift, Tin and Wendy spend several blissful years together—until one day Wendy is murdered, bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. Satchel is the prime suspect... Hardcover: ISBN: 1592641660 Pages: c.400 US$24.95 UK£14.99 Publication date: September 2006 More Info...