Salvation in Death by J.D. RobbMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
27th Installment?/I'll never catch up. How does Robb keep coming up with these murders? This time a well respected, might even say beloved, priest is celebrating the requiem Mass for a prominent member of the congregation. The Church is filled with generations of relatives and neighborhood friends. It is the most sacred moment of the rite, the consecration and taking of Communion by the celebrant. He drops half the host into the chalice, lifts it to his lips, drinks and collapses in death. It doesn't take long to determine that he has been poisoned--cyanide. Who would want to murder this man who in his five years in the Parish has been actively involved in all its facets--especially with the Youth group ? It also doesn't take to learn that he is not the priest he has claimed to be--he is an imposter who is not a priest at all! First order of business then must be to determine who he is, why he posed as a priest and, maybe just as importantly, why he asked to be assigned to this particular Parish. Lots of questions, not many immediate answers and a few monkey wrenches thrown into the mix--like the poisoning of another religious leader in the midst of an arena full of followers during a mass celebration. Connected? Maybe.
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