Her Death of Cold

Her Death of Cold is set in the Midwestern town of Fox River, Illinois, where recently—arrived Father Dowling is woken by a phone call at 3 a.m. from one of his parishioners, a frightened 75-year-old widow called Sylvia Lowry. He tries to calm her fears - but it is not long before her murdered body is discovered on her kitchen floor. Dowling is pleased to meet up again with Phil Keegan, now Chief of the local detectives, who had begun training for a priest at the same seminary as Dowling but had left "after a year of theology". "Who could blame you?" sympathised Dowling. This leads to their collaboration on the strange case of the murdered Sylvia Lowry, who, it turned out thoroughly mistrusted her family and had taken out $150,000 dollars in cash from her account. And the money had disappeared.Her Death of Cold, the first of the new Father Dowling Mystery series, promises satisfaction ahead for detective-story readers everywhere, far beyond the limits of Father Dowling's parish.