The Rosary Murders

By: William X. Kienzle

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Synopsis: From the Jacket: From Ash Wednesday, when the murderer first struck Detroit's Catholic community, the police seemed helpless to solve the string of senseless murders. The weeks that followed became a nightmare for the crack homicide team of investigators headed by Lieutenant Walter Koznicki, until Father Koesler broke the madman's code. Here is a story with tension, excitement, intelligence, and a rare wit and humor. Kienzle painstakingly leads the reader through every step in an intensive police investigation of a heinous series of murders. Police procedure and Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper reporting are as much a part of the action as the crimes themselves. With superb control of the novel's movement, Kienzle can tantalize at a tortoise's pace and cause reader whiplash at a hare's pace. This extremely informed tale could only have been written by one who knows his way around the rectory and the city room. Kienzle, a former priest and editor of the Michigan Catholic, knows them both and is a mystery buff in the bargain. In The Rosary Murders he has profiled a host of characters for future Father Koesler mysteries. His first novel is so authentic, readers will wonder if it really happened. Did they read about it in Time and Newsweek ... or is it really fiction? It could happen . . . did it?