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A Gentle Murderer (Library of Congress Crime Classics) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
A Gentle Murderer (Library of Congress Crime Classics) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Father Duffy has heard many confessions through the years but non quite so disturbing as the one he's heard tonight. Just as the priest is readying to leave for the evening, a young man enters the confessional. The penitent is distraught that he has killed a woman in a paroxysm of uncontrollable rage, and he's still wielding the hammer he used to do the deed. Father Duffy tries to convince the young man to turn himself into the police, but he flees just as suddenly as he appeared.
When the priest learns the next day that an escort was found bludgeoned to death on New York's East Side, he sets out to search for the troubled confessor. Meanwhile, Sergeant Ben Goldsmith of the NYPD is drawn deep into the official investigation. Neither is aware that the other is searching for the murderer, and both hope against hope that they're able to find the killer before he strikes again.
POISONED PEN PRESS, SOFTCOVER, 2023
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.