A Hammett Prize-Winning Series
An August Snow Novel (Book 4)
Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit's Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow finds the circumstances troubling - especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious priest calling himself Francis Dominioni Petra. The man comes from the Vatican, and August wants to know why. A terrible crime has been committed in the name of faith - but who is seeking justice, and who is trying to bury the truth and any of its witnesses?