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Saints Don't Moan
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789786824932
Publisher: Aceworld Publishers Limited
Published: Mar 23 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Saints Don't Moan is a dark psychological thriller told through the chilling personal writings of Kiki Cole, a woman who carefully crafts the image of a perfect, godly church girl while hiding a dangerous and manipulative inner life.
Kiki thrives on control, admiration, and secrecy. Her double life begins with an illicit affair with Pastor Femi, a respected married church leader. What starts as emotional tension and hidden desire quickly becomes a physical relationship fueled by power, risk, and manipulation.
When Femi's wife, Dupe, discovers the affair, Kiki's carefully constructed world begins to collapse. In a desperate attempt to maintain control and silence the threat, Kiki becomes involved in a violent confrontation that leads to Dupe's death in what is ruled an accident.
But Dupe is not the first-and not the last.
Kiki has already killed before, and she kills again. Her friend Tomi, who begins to suspect the truth about Kiki's behavior and past crimes, confronts her. In a moment of cold, instinctive impulse, Kiki pushes her off a balcony, killing her and staging it as another tragic accident.
Earlier still, another victim, Zee, dies under suspicious circumstances that Kiki successfully manipulates into a believable story, reinforcing her belief that she is untouchable.
Throughout it all, Kiki maintains her flawless public image-comforting grieving families, attending church faithfully, and performing goodness so convincingly that no one suspects her. To her, evil is not chaos-it is control, precision, and appearance.
The only person who sees through her is Inspector Amina, a sharp and persistent investigator who begins to notice the disturbing pattern: Kiki is always close to tragedy, yet never implicated. Despite her suspicions, the system fails to act in time.
Eventually, Kiki is caught and imprisoned. From her cell, she writes her story-not as a confession, but as a final act of control, hoping to be understood, remembered, and seen as more than just a murderer.
However, her carefully imagined ending is denied. Before she can face execution, Kiki dies in prison during a trivial fight, losing the control she valued most in the final moment of her life.
After her death, her writings are recovered and published, exposing the truth behind the perfect girl. The revelations destroy Pastor Femi's reputation and spark widespread debate about who Kiki really was-a victim of desire, a manipulator, or a sociopath.
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