Parishioners attending the early mass at St. Anne's find the body of their beloved priest sprawled, throat slit, across the floor of the sacristyβa small cross etched in his chest.
It's a tragedy that hits community newspaper editor Monona Quinn hard. Father O'Bannon was a friend, kind and dedicated to his parishioners and his callingβso at odds with the brutality of his death. The cleric was opposed to the new highway proposal and real estate developers in the rural Wisconsin areaβbut how much of a threat could a parish priest be to big city developers? Was there hidden enmity among the more opinionated locals, including an activist teacher and a group of Catholic extremists, or perhaps some skeleton lurking in the good father's closet? The answersβand the killerβremain elusive, until a shocking discovery leads Mo to the terrible and tragic motive.
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