Good and Dead

The scholar/sleuth investigates a series of deaths in a church congregation in an "agreeably malevolent" mystery that "comes to a spirited conclusion" (Publishers Weekly).

The Baptists of Nashoba are healthy. So are the Quakers, Lutherans, and Methodists. Every religious sect in this small New England town is in ruddy good health, save for the congregation at the Old West Church, whose members are dying like flies. As a rash of heart failure claims victim after victim, what first seemed l...