Detective

nothing was ever as simple as it
seemed.

The public interest, or to satisfy your own personal ambition

It had been ten years since Ainslie quit the priesthood.

his own past had a habit of surfacing unexpectedly

no one was more bitter or prejudiced toward an ex-Catholic priest than an incumbent priest

Now it seemed there was no alternative.

"I come in a small package," Karen had said soon after they became engaged. "But there's lots of love in it along with everything else you'll need." And so it had been.

At forty-one, Detective-Sergeant Ainslie was solidly built, a half-inch short of six feet and not too different in appearance from his days as a high school fullback

trumpet and cardboard moon

shame and repentance’ over the Holocaust. But the next day the Vatican s