Quirks of the Beehive State

We need to talk about something very disturbing. If you live in Utah you have probably come across it yourself. I'm talking about LDS fictional literature.

Sometime after the Da Vinci Code came out some ambitious Mormon writer released The Moroni Code. Now the name alone made me snicker, but just now I went to deseretbook.com and found a description of The Moroni Code. Here it is:

"When FBI agent David Hunter is assigned to decipher the mysterious code on a letter from Joseph Smith, everything goes wrong. The code is much harder to break than he'd imagined, complicated by the fact that someone has been stealing documents from the Church's Historical Department. And always in the back of his mind is his overwhelming need to translate an even stranger document: his grandfather's authentic copy of characters from the golden plates--a fading slip of paper he jokingly calls the Moroni Code. But it's no joke. If he can work out the translation, it will mean Joseph Smith really was a prophet--and he can finally make sense of his own heritage, his own life. But first, he has to protect the Church--and time is running out. "

Oh dear. I...I...uh....don't even know what to say.

What's next? Brother Anderson and the Elder's Quorum foil a plan to assassinate the President of the United States? The 27th Ward Relief Society stops a meteor from slamming into the earth? "Come on sisters, put down your needlepoint. We have a special calling."

Stop the madness!