Someone is brutally killing Catholic priests. Revenge, or something more
sinister? Ireland's first female detective must get to the truth in the second
Katie Maguire mystery.
One cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a bundle of rags
floating in the Blackwater River. It is the bloated body of Father Heaney. His
hands and feet are bound, and his neck bears the marks of garrotting wire. Worse
still, he has been castrated. When a second priest is found murdered, his body
bruised and beaten and the same savage wound hidden beneath his soutane,
Detective Inspector Katie Maguire finds evidence of a sinister cover-up at St.
Joseph's