At a rate of one book a year for almost 25 years — from 1978 through 2002 — William X. Kienzle wrote a mystery featuring Detroit priest Father Koesler. Last May, the series publisher, Andrews McMeel, began reissuing the books, in order, in ebook format, four every couple of months. This month, the 17th through 20th titles were released.
We read many of the early books in this series when they first came out and found them to be both rich in character and story and are so glad to see them being reissued to a new generation of readers.
We're featuring the first in the series below, The Rosary Murders, which was adapted into a 1987 feature film starring Donald Sutherland as Father Koesler. You can find a list of all currently available Kindle titles by using this link.
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The Rosary Murders
William X. Kienzle
A Father Koesler Mystery (1st in series)
Someone is killing the nuns and priests of Detroit.
It all begins on Ash Wednesday — and now it won't stop. The only remarkable thing about the crimes is the killer's macabre calling card: a plain black rosary was wrapped around each corpse's wrist. The police are stumped. But Father Koesler sees a pattern, a consuming religious obsession that is driving one man to serial murder.
There's danger ahead as the killer moves inexorably toward an encounter with Father Koesler — in the eerie stillness of his confessional.
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