Who brutally murdered Father O’Fallon, in the St. Boniface rectory in Rock Meadow, Kansas? Officer Jacinta Perez is arrested and charged with a murder she swears she did not commit. However, the evidence against her is solid--including her DNA, threatening phone call, her fingerprints on a photo by the body, a cigarette butt confirming the only brand she smokes, her boot prints on the blood-stained carped, and a witness who claims having seen her enter the rectory near the time of the murder.
At first, even detective Matt Gunnison is convinced but then notices cracks in the case. Two other persons of interest emerge. One had publicly threatened to kill...
Who brutally murdered Father O’Fallon, in the St. Boniface rectory in Rock Meadow, Kansas? Officer Jacinta Perez is arrested and charged with a murder she swears she did not commit. However, the evidence against her is solid--including her DNA, threatening phone call, her fingerprints on a photo by the body, a cigarette butt confirming the only brand she smokes, her boot prints on the blood-stained carped, and a witness who claims having seen her enter the rectory near the time of the murder.
At first, even detective Matt Gunnison is convinced but then notices cracks in the case. Two other persons of interest emerge. One had publicly threatened to kill the priest days before he was murdered. The other has the murder weapon itself.
Matt chases one of these women of interest to Chicago on suspicion that she may not only have killed the priest but that she also murdered another woman in a heated argument. But after careful examination of the evidence Matt has to rule her out of the priest's murder but has a case for her murder of the woman.
When Matt went to Chicago, he took Susan, a friend and a former nun, with him because she taught at a an elementary school there 25 years ago--and she feels that somehow an unsolved murder there might have played an important role to the slaying of the priest. Her hunch pays off. Matt discovers evidence in a haunted, abandoned cellar in Chicago that not only solves the cold case murder of an eight-year-old girl but eventually leads to the shocking identity of true killer of the priest, someone he had never suspected.
Tom Mach wrote two successful historical novels, Sissy! and All Parts Together, both of which have won rave reviews and were listed among the 150 best Kansas books in 2011.Sissy! won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award while All Parts Together was a viable entrant for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Award. He also wrote a collection of short stories entitled Stories To Enjoy which received positive reviews. Tom has two other novels which appear as E-books: An Innocent Murdered and Advent.
His poetry collection, The Uni Verse, won the 2008 Nelson Poetry Book Award. In addition to winning poetry awards from Kansas Authors Club, Tom was a finalist in a nationwide Writer’s Digest Awards competition.
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Who brutally murdered Father O’Fallon, in the St. Boniface rectory in Rock Meadow, Kansas? Officer Jacinta Perez is arrested and charged with a murder she swears she did not commit. However, the evidence against her is solid--including her DNA, threatening phone call, her fingerprints on a photo by the body, a cigarette butt confirming the only brand she smokes, her boot prints on the blood-stained carped, and a witness who claims having seen her enter the rectory near the time of the murder.At first, even detective Matt Gunnison is convinced but then notices cracks in the case. Two other persons of interest emerge. One had publicly threatened to kill...