Vespers Author:Ed McBain On a beautiful evening in May, a young Catholic priest is brutally stabbed to death in his garden. A church practicing satanism is not four blocks away, and the cult sign of Baphomet is found scrawled on the garden gate in bright red paint. There are racial tensions in this part of the city. There are rumors of broken vows and shattered hopes... more ». The trail of blood leads back to a shadowy Easter Sunday and events that are bewildering, frightening and contradictory...
...His new novel, Vespers, is not merely a dazzling thriller, but an honest and engrossing picture of what it is like to live in these times.« less