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Father Dowling becomes entangled in a decade-old crime when he meets Nathaniel Green, returning home after being convicted of killing his terminally ill wife, and suspects that Green may not have committed the crime to which he confessed.Tags
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Nicely complex, if nothing really new or surprising. The tangled Armstrong family and their various feuds and hatreds makes for interesting reading, and there are even some hints towards some larger issues, as a small challenge to the local mob family of Fox River is issued and one of the minor characters ends up pregnant. It will be interesting to me to read the next book to see if either of those storylines are followed up. The world of Father Dowling is now complicated enough to warrant its own Who's Who, as I often wonder when coming across a minor character, if it is one that I've run across before.
The puzzle (puzzles?) are well put together and the ending is left slightly ambiguous, which is a nice touch. It would be interesting show more to see what happens to the family in a later book. show less
The puzzle (puzzles?) are well put together and the ending is left slightly ambiguous, which is a nice touch. It would be interesting show more to see what happens to the family in a later book. show less
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Ralph McInerny was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 24, 1929. He served in the Marine Corps in the late 1940s. He received a bachelor's degree from St. Paul Seminary in 1951, a master's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1952 and a doctorate in philosophy from Laval University in Quebec in 1954. He was a member of the University show more of Notre Dame faculty from 1955 until 2009. He gained international renown as a scholar, author and lecturer who specialized in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. During his academic career, he was the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies and director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. He is founder and publisher of Catholic Dossier magazine and co-founder of Crisis magazine. His philosophical works include Aquinas on Human Action, The Question of Christian Ethics, and Aquinas and Analogy. His novels include the Father Dowling Mystery series, an Andrew Broom Mystery series, and the Sister Mary Teresa Mystery series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin, Matthew FitzRalph, Ernan Mackey, Edward Mackin, and Monica Quill. He died on January 29, 2010 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Ash Wednesday
- People/Characters
- Nathaniel Green; Madeleine Clancy; Helen Burke; Florence Green; Natalie Armstrong; Eugene Schmidt (show all 10); Jason Burke; Carmela Rush; August Liberati; Roger Dowling
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