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Legendary detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) will face yet another devilish crime Nov. 26, when “Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” lands in theaters. (It’ll head to Netflix Dec. 12.) And this time, religion takes center stage — with Blanc investigating the murder of a charismatic priest.

Maybe it’s fitting that faith sneaks into director Rian Johnson’s popular mysteries. While we can’t say how Christian faith will be treated in his latest Knives Out mystery, faith itself is incredibly important in mystery stories themselves. Those stories might not be pinned to faith in God, but faith in so many things that Christians believe are rooted in God’s character: faith that truth can be known, justice can be found, and that a sense of divine order can be restored.

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