Ralph McInerny

Father Dowling confronts an ethical dilemma when one of his parishioners reveals information in confidence about a troubled marriage, and the parishioner's spouse later becomes the victim of a brutal hit-and-run "accident" that could be murder.

When conflict over forgotten reservations for two separate marriages at the popular campus rectory at Notre Dame leads to chaos, kidnapping, and murder, professor Roger Knight and his brother, Philip, investigate the mystery.

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...

In a sleepy Midwestern town on the banks of the Fox River lives one of the greatest fictional detectives ever created. The benevolent, brilliant Father Dowling of St Hilary's Church has led and cared for his congregation while unraveling the knottiest of mysteries in more than twenty-five novels. Collected here are fifteen of the best Father Dowling short stories, in which the good father takes on cases no less complicated for their brevity. With...