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Meet the Lord of Homicides

The cover represents this twisted telling of the possible second coming of Christ.

Meet the Lord of Homicides


Since I write comedy or satire, I have to admit I had a ball writing this book. My version of demons and angels as being a little simple and on the dumb side allowed me to create an entire new world. Lucifer had a change of heart, came back to earth as mother Teresa, and went back to Heaven. This left all of Hell and earth to be run by a demon named Balberith, known as the Lord of Homicides. He has figured out that Nathan Bright, a drunken Indiana gambler, could possibly be the second coming of Christ because he is the first human to ever see them. Things really get screwed up when millions of demons come to live with Nathan so their boss can watch him.

The novel has a cast of bizarre characters and sub-plots involving terrorists and the war between good and evil. Michael the Archangel and his outnumbered legions try to continue their endless war to save humanity with advice from Moses who is now an angel who carries a big stick and has genitals. No angel has genitals so he is kind of a superstar among the angel legions. The entire concept began as an attempt to explain why people will suddenly go nuts and shoot up a building or wipe out their own family. This novel attempts to explain what cannot be explained with some belly laughs along the way and a generous load of brine shrimp and crazy as hell situations. It will never set the literary world on fire because I've never taken life all that serious, but if it makes you laugh, I'll be happy.

If you have a signed copy, keep it because the way my timing and luck runs, after I croak it will at some point be worth a fortune. It's available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.


Lord of Homicides Review

Lord of Homicides
by Dennis Latham, (A&S) '92
This talented storyteller takes readers on another weird and entertaining ride in his new paranormal humor novel. Original and unexpected characters, both good and evil, vie for and against an event of possibly major destruction in Greater Cincinnati. More slapstick than terrifying, each "army" in this Armageddon is burdened with very odd habits and crude expressions. Even the confused hero, Nathan Bright, is uncertain about where his loyalty lies. Latham's third novel explores Bright's character. A chronic drunk and gambler who lives in Aurora, Ind., and an unmotivated but good-hearted loser, he is totally unknown to the demon horde until his name is "writ large" by a fiery finger on a Denver cliffside. Could Nathan be the Second Coming? The finger doesn't say, and Nathan doesn't know, but the demons are keeping their eyes on him.

University of Cincinnati Magazine


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