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When Nick Bertetto, a stay-at-home dad and former investigative reporter, is asked to return to his hometown of Clinton, Indiana to investigate the death of the town patriarch, he views it as a chance to spend some time with his dad and pal around his old Italian-American stomping grounds. It isn’t long before his attitude changes. The alleged suicide is quite probably murder, and members of the patriarch’s family are drawing battle lines over the will. But Nick is most disturbed that the old family priest who summoned him and the patriarch’s granddaughter who wants him to prove it was murder, had the most to gain from the death. The priest and the granddaughter run an organization called "Children of the Second Advent," to which half of the estate was left. ‘Second Advent’ promotes the messages of the Virgin Mary to a local visionary, who claims Mary appears to her pregnant, signaling the second coming of Christ. Nick’s own romantic past with the visionary complicates his investigation. The two were once lovers. Here is a novel that speaks to our time's mystical religions. . .crossed with our era's fascination with the kind of crime that makes for great tabloid headlines. |
