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The Seventh Station (Father Dowling, Bk 3)
The Seventh Station - Father Dowling, Bk 3 Author:Ralph M. McInerny On a sunny August day, Father Dowling gladly sets out for a priest's holiday, the annual week of retreat, with plans for blessed quiet, rest, and thought. But, alas, like most well-laid schemes, this one quickly goes awry. For even in Eden-like retreat, snakes lie coiled, webs are being spun -- evil is about. There it all lies, dropped ... more »at the feet of Father Dowling as he piously makes the stations of the cross. Why this malevolence here? Why the sacrilege perpetrated at this holy place?
In The Seventh Station we enjoy again old friends from Father Dowling's first mystery, Her Death of Cold, and find some delectable new rogues and fools and gentle men, some truly troubled souls -- a continuing provincial human comedy that Ralph McInerny so delights in revealing.« less