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Bishop Blackie Ryan is sent to Paris to find a missing priest who had become a television superstar. Blackie enlists the help of a beutiful young musician he found begging outside a church, and together they attempt to solve the mystery.

The Devil's Advocate, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacamo Nerone has inspired talk of sainthood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigateand to try to untangle the web of facts, rumors, and outright lies that surround Nerone's life and death. With spiritual frailty as...

Blown off course on her journey to Canterbury, Fidelma of seventh-century Ireland finds herself in Wales, where the king challenges her to discover the whereabouts of a missing monastic community and to solve an unrelated murder.

"St. Mary's infirmary garden was a place for the growing of healing herbs and a place of quiet for those nuns who had been ill. The fact that it was designed for serenity and comfort made it doubly wrong to find Master Montfort sprawled out on the grass there. Dead."--Jacket.

Sixteen-year-old honors student Ernest Benoit has always followed the rules. But when his best friend drowns on Cape Cod, he begins to question his family's devout Catholicism, and he disrupts an Advent prayer service at his Catholic high school. Now his life will never be the same.

It is the world's oldest political power, a vast financial empire, and a maze-like bureaucracy -- and yet its sole purpose is to proclaim and effect Christian salvation. It is the Vatican, and only an insider could reveal its complex secrets; only a bestselling author could weave its many strands into the novel that captures its full sweep and drama. Vatican is a rich and monumental saga with a scope and daring that slice through the protective secrecy...

"The fallen star lay in a death-like coma, victim of an attack as mysterious as it was savage. Until violence interrupted her glittering career, she was a singer and actress adored by millions. But she held a very special, intimate place in the heart of Father Blackie Ryan, whose desperation to unmask her assailant proved the only force that could prevent the outbreak of a second, even more devastating tragedy" -- goodreads.com

When three people are murdered in a church that has long represented a bulwark against change in its venerable Chicago neighborhood, Bishop "Blackie" Ryan enlists a psychic cop and a Sicilian attorney in what he believes is a campaign of terror.

With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilary's are dangeriously close to the bone. Father Dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who don't want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the church they were meant for, but they can hardly be of help when...

The innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of mystery stories about the short, unassuming, bespectacled priest who solves crimes by understanding the human mind and soul of the criminals involved, and in the second collection, The wisdom of Father Brown, once again Father Brown must solve puzzles, cases of mistaken identity, and confront strange tales.