ChristianSuspenseNovels.com is a free site for readers who want clean, faith-driven suspense set in Alabama. The site now centers on the novels of award-winning Alabama author Michael Garrett, presenting stories born from the state's lakes, pine forests, and small towns, where faith is a driving force in every choice and Jesus is present in every crisis.^1 Its author page describes Garrett's work as clean, high-stakes fiction in which crime, danger, betrayal, and romance intersect with faith and redemption.^2
The beach reads page features Garrett's In the Shadow of the Cross, in which Lucas Bonham confronts evil on the shores of the Coosa River in Talladega County, and CAPTIVE, which strands two devout Christians, Elise Farmington and David Stetson, together in a Shelby County snowstorm.^3 A lakeside page presents Nothing to Lose and Over the Edge as books one and two of the Escape From Injustice series, following Larissa Baxter and Derrick Walton on Logan Martin Lake.^4
Garrett is a devout Christian and lifelong Alabama resident who holds the distinction of having been Stephen King's first editor and publisher.^5 After a spiritual awakening, he wrote that he felt compelled to use his God-given talent as a writer to honor Him.^7 CAPTIVE, his Christian-market rewrite of his earlier novel Keeper, is a Firebird Book Award winner written with no swearing or sex, and Over the Edge also won a Firebird Book Award and a 2023 American Fiction Award.^7
A contact form invites readers to send Garrett a question or comment.^8
