Lust
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Paris. The Marais at dawn. Four Interpol officers entering a narrow apartment building. A staging that speaks of desire consumed past the point of recognition. A square of vellum. A Latin word that Augustine spent forty years writing about.
LUXURIA.
The investigation arrives in Paris and everything changes. Not just the case ? the distance. The distance Sonya Logan has been managing since the Borghese Gallery. The distance between the detective who leads the investigation and the journalist who follows it. The distance between professional discipline and the thing that Paris, the city of self-consciousness, refuses to let anyone hide from themselves.
Paris is Book Four because Paris is the city of lust ? not the crude version but the Augustinian version. The disordered desire that confuses the vessel for what the vessel contains. The love that exceeds its proper object. The wanting that replaces the having with the pursuit.
The theologian's curriculum has now produced four diagnoses, each more precise than the last. The annotations are deepening. The correspondence between the killer and the investigation has become a dialogue conducted through parchments and letters and notes left behind picture frames in European hotel rooms. And Sonya is reading the dialogue with both voices ? the detective's voice and the other one. The one she has been managing since she was twenty-two.
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Dr. Matthew Lewis is a sport psychologist, educator, and author based in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds a PsyD in Applied Sport Psychology from the University of Arizona and a Master's in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Arizona State University, and his work for two decades has lived at the intersection of human performance, character formation, and the questions philosophers and theologians have been asking for two thousand years.
He is the founder of Lewis Publishing House, the independent literary imprint that publishes the Between Heaven and Hell series ? his first work of fiction. The eight-book series follows an Interpol commissioner and an Italian journalist across the cities of Europe, each book turning on one of the seven deadly sins and the specific shape that sin takes in a single human life.
