The Rosary Murders Author:William X. Kienzle Father William Koesler, a Roman Catholic priest and editor of the Detroit Catholic, is the amateur detective of this series. The crimes he solves are an interesting tangle involving religion and ethics, much like Harry Kemelman's Rabbi series, but the Father Koesler mysteries are remarkable especially for the insights they offer into the lives o... more »f priests and nuns -- and for the fly-on-the-wall perspective on what priests actually talk about around the dinner table in the parish rectory. Is it true to life? Most likely it is; Kienzle spent two decades as a parish priest and, like his protagonist, edited a Catholic newspaper before he left the priesthood.« less
Kept me guessing. Father Koesler series. Someone is killing nuns and priests and their calling card is a black rosary wrapped around the victims wrist.