William T. Delamar’s three novels, The Hidden Congregation, Patients in Purgatory and The CareTAKERS, have been acquired by Rogue Phoenix Press!

William T. Delamar’s three novels, The Hidden Congregation, Patients in Purgatory and The CareTAKERS, have been acquired by Rogue Phoenix Press!

William T. Delamar’s three novels, The Hidden Congregation, Patients in Purgatory and The CareTAKERS, have been acquired by Rogue Phoenix Press!

The Hidden Congregation

Set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this riveting, scandalous novel, reveals how far an evil influence will take you and how grace will bring you back.

When reading this, you will ask yourself, “What happened to them?” What did will shock you! This is a combination of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and a tad bit of horror that equals thriller. It is what made them do what they did that blows you away. Delamar brings all the facets of the book together and glues it with the humanity of the pastor.

Reverend Oxford Christie has received a call to serve the Church of the One Soul in Philadelphia.

A deep secret haunts this large church with such few members, one they all thought would never surface…again.

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Patients in Purgatory, the second the Reverend Christie mystery series.

A niece of one of Rev. Ox Christie’s parishioners is supposed to be rehabilitating in the Night and Day Nursing Home. She alerts her uncle, a parishioner of Church of the One Soul, of the odd occurrences such as people being there one day and gone the next, unexplained surgeries and doped-up/zombie-like residents which triggers an unexpected surge of visitors from Ox’s church. Their presence and the sleuthing ability of Ox helps to unravel a complex organ harvesting ring and body diamond cremations.

As sadistic as it may sound, such crimes do happen, even right under our noses. Bodies of hundreds of deceased were found in the woods of Twiggs County, Georgia when a funeral home was found to charge families for caskets, which they just reused, discarding the bodies. And you can actually have the ashes of your loved one compressed into a diamond. Such events are the basis for Delamar’s riveting novel. http://www.forevermarkdiamond.com/us

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The CareTAKERS, a mystery/thriller…

Doug Carpenter, a new administrator, the third in four years, at Eastern Medical College Hospital, fights hospital power politics and physician greed while trying to provide a good setting for patient care. This combative scene forms a constant barrier to a successful, smooth-running operation and creates a threat to Doug's own position, but that's not all…There’s a patient suicide, an alcoholic anesthesiologist, an “angel of death,” a genocidal doctor and a union strike.

In reality this does happen, but it does so for Doug in only a matter of weeks; challenging his every emotion, diplomatic expertise, morals and ethics while strengthening his faith in God and humanity.

Bill Delamar grew up in Durham, North Carolina, in a home full of books. In high school, he worked part-time at the Duke University Press, further increasing his love for literature. Currently, he resides in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania in a house which resembles a library from basement to third floor. Delamar served in the navy as a weatherman, has a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.S. from Antioch University. He has thirty-five years’ experience in hospital administration and was recently honored as a founding member of the Hospital Management and Information Systems Society which grew from twenty-eight members to thousands internationally. He is on the board of the Philadelphia Writers Conference, having served five times as president.  Having been involved in the literary arts most of his life, he contributed a chapter in the textbook, Hospital Industrial Engineering, co-authored a creativity text, Brain-Webbing and contributed to Weymouth, a book of poetry. Delamar’s novel, The Brother Voice (Shannon & Elm Publishing, 2014), takes place during the Civil War. He is currently working on the sequel, The Other Voice. He and his wife, Gloria, also a writer, are collaborating on a nonfiction book and a mystery series focusing on husband and wife amateur sleuths. www.delamar.org Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com  Published by Rogue Phoenix Press www.roguephoenixpress.com