Murder Most Catholic

The murder mysteries that make up this unusual anthology all have one thing in common: the hero or heroine who solves the crime is a Catholic cleric. From Chesterton’s classic priest-turned-detective Father Brown to Peter Tremayne’s historical Celtic nun and lawyer, Sister Fidelma, religious men and women put aside their professional duties for a moment to take up an altogether different vocation for a short time – that of detective and solver of crimes unspeakable. The stories in this collection of Catholic clerical sleuthing includes: Whispers of the Dead by Peter Tremayne – Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned by Ed Gorman – Death by Fire by Anne Perry and Malachi Saxon – The Arrow of Ice by Edward D. Hoch – The Rag and Bone Man by Lillian Stewart Carl – Divine Justice by Charles Meyer – Cemetery of the Innocents by Stephen Dentinger – Veronica’s Veil by Monica Quill – Lowly Death by Margaret Frazer – Ex Libris by Kate Gallison – A Clerical Error by Michael Jecks – Through a Glass, Darkly by Kate Charles – The Knight’s Confession by P. C. Doherty – The Shorn Lamb by Ralph McInerny