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The discovery of the mangled body of Wallace Flanagan in one of his father's cement mixers sends Father Dowling on an investigation into the secret past of the victim, the heir to a lucrative concrete business, who supposedly had left town more than a decade earlier.

Father Roger Dowling tries to find who murdered his friend's daughter right before she was to enter a convent.

In the 17th Father Dowling mystery, the plot deals with adoption and murder. At its center is a woman born out of wedlock. The mother gave her up for adoption and she may have been adopted by the father.

Father Dowling is caught in a dispute over a woman between Austin Rooney and former radio celebrity Jack Gallagher, a situation that becomes further complicated when Jack becomes the prime suspect in the death of another woman

In St. Hilary's rectory, Father Dowling meets with a husband seeking an annulment of his marriage. Then he meets with the wife who opposes it--they have been married 30 years. The husband is murdered and Father Dowling goes to work. By the author of Seed of Doubt.

With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilarys, are dangerously close to the bone. Father Dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who dont want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the church they were meant for, but they can hardly be of help when...