Guilt and a desperate need to repent drive the antiheroes in Tom Walker’s dark (and often darkly funny) stories: -A gullible journalist falls for the 40-year-old stripper he profiles in a magazine.-A faithless husband abandons his family and joins a support group for lost souls.-A merciless prosecuting attorney grapples with the suicide of his gay son.-An aging misanthrope must make amends to five former victims.-An egoistic naval hero is haunted by apparitions of his dead wife and a mysterious little girl.The seven tales in Signed Confessions measure how far guilty men will go to obtain a forgiveness no one can grant but themselves.