Deb Richardson-Moore

Deb Richardson-Moore is a former newspaper journalist who writes in the cozy noir mystery genre.

Her first three novels make up the Branigan Powers mysteries: The Cantaloupe Thief, The Cover Story and Death of a Jester. Branigan is a reporter in Georgia and is aided in her investigations by a homeless man who glides unseen through their small town. Disregarded by the townspeople, he sees and hears things that others do not — especially when it comes to mysterious deaths.

Deb’s first book was the 2012 memoir The Weight of Mercy, which tells about her post-newspaper career as pastor of the non-denominational Triune Mercy Center, a church that includes homeless parishioners in Greenville, South Carolina. Published by Lion Hudson of Oxford, England, the memoir has been used at Harvard and Duke Divinity Schools and was named to the Reading List for United Methodist Women worldwide.

Coming in September 2020: Her stand-alone domestic mystery, Murder, Forgotten.

Deb and her husband Vince are the parents of three children. They live in South Carolina.

The Weight of Mercy

Deb’s true story is a testament to the power of grace and the presence of the Spirit in the hard places of the world.

For 27 years Deb was a journalist in the Deep South. Then she found her own story when she became a Baptist pastor and began work at a run-down inner-city church in Greenville, South Carolina. It was a world she’d never known - a world of poverty, addiction and homelessness.

But trust was hard earned. Every day faith had to be re-learned. In The Weight of Mercy Deb Richardson-Moore throws open the doors to her church where we get a front row seat to her transformed life - a life commandeered for the work of God’s Kingdom.

Praise for The Weight of Mercy

Deb Richardson-Moore is one of my ‘most admired’ people. I love her heart, her experience-learned wisdom, her honesty and her passion. You will praise God for the work He is doing at the Triune Mercy Center. – Ruth Graham, author of In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart

Mrs. Richardson-Moore opens the doors of Triune and offers us a seat next to a stammering crack addict as he promises he’s going to come clean tomorrow, invites us into a tiny corner of an abandoned warehouse that a homeless couple has lovingly decorated, then throws open the door of the church’s bathroom after it’s been excruciatingly violated and offers the reader a mop bucket as the foul stench seethes from the pages. Changing the world is tough, dirty, thankless work. – John Malik, Huffington Post

The Weight of Mercy

Praise for The Weight of Mercy

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