Gratitude for technical advice to:
Robert Ankeny, Staff Writer,
Roy Awe, Investigator, Attorneys' Grievance Commission
Olga Bachmann, Ph.D., and Rudy Bachmann, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologists
Ramon Betanzos, Professor of Humanities, Wayne State University
Sister Claudia Carlen, I.H.M., Archivist, Archdiocese of Detroit
Detroit Police Department:
Robert Hislop, Commander, Major Crimes Division
Sergeant Mary Marcantonio, Office of Executive Deputy Chief
Thistleton Robertson, P.O., Organized Crime Division
Barbara Weide, Lieutenant, Homicide Section
Jim Grace, Detective, Kalamazoo Police Department
Sister Bernadelle Grimm, R.S.M., Samaritan Health Care Center, Detroit
Sister Elizabeth Harris, H.V.M., Director, Women ARISE
Margaret Hershey, R.N., Pulmonary Care Unit, Detroit Receiving Hospital
Timothy Kenny, Deputy Chief, PROB, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney's Office Noreen Rooney, Editor, TV Listings,
Andrea Solak, Principal Attorney, Grants and Legislation, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
Werner Spitz, U.M.D., Wayne County Medical Examiner
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William X. Kienzle died in December 2001. He was a Detroit parish priest for twenty years before leaving the priesthood. He began writing his popular mystery series after serving as an editor and director at the Center for Contemplative Studies at the University of Dallas.
The Father Koesler Mysteries
1. The Rosary Murders
2. Death Wears a Red Hat
3. Mind Over Murder
4. Assault with Intent
5. Shadow of Death
6. Kill and Tell
7. Sudden Death
8. Deathbed
9. Deadline for a Critic
10. Marked for Murder
11. Eminence
12. Masquerade
13. Chameleon
14. Body Count
15. Dead Wrong
16. Bishop as Pawn
17. Call No Man Father
18. Requiem for Moses
19. The Man Who Loved God
20. The Greatest Evil
21. No Greater Love
22. Till Death
23. The Sacrifice
24. The Gathering
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Eminence
The Father Koesler Mysteries: Book 11
1
He killed the first guy he ever shot.
Dumb luck, expertise, or a finely tuned reflex response? It didn't make a damn bit of difference to David Powell. He was dead.
David Powell, fifteen years old, grade school dropout, with a prodigious arrest record; purveyor of just about every manner of controlled substance, from the relatively innocuous marijuana to the current drug of choice, crack cocaine.
The essence of David Powell-soul or whatever-was gone now. What remained had been dropped on a slab in the morgue. How had Shakespeare expressed it-'Shrunk to this little measure . . . a bleeding piece of earth.'
Alonzo Tully was not particularly strong on Shakespeare, but he was pretty sure of those phrases from
Zoo, as he was known to just about everyone, had been a Detroit police officer for twenty-two years, thirteen of them in Homicide. He dealt in death. He could not count the times he had stood in this dank, gray room in the Wayne County Medical Examiner's building, attending an autopsy. Certainly he had been here for each and every murder case he'd investigated.
Tully believed that each investigation needed all the help it could get. And, after the murder scene itself, the next best place to build one's case, chronologically and every other way, was the morgue. The autopsy process, and the morgue's boss, Dr. Wilhelm Moellmann, were instructive teachers.
However, Tully needed little enlightening with regard to the death of David Powell. The case, as Hollywood was wont to put it, was open and shut. Or, in the jargon of the police, a platter case, i.e., presented on a silver platter.
Tully had killed Powell. It was as simple as that-on paper. It was far more momentous to Tully.
