For I Have Sinned // Sins of the Father — Kristen Houghton

Huffington Post Private investigator Cate Harlow finds herself involved in two cases that are seemingly unrelated; she soon discovers they may be bizarrely connected. While working the cold case of a boy who went missing ten years ago, she receives an early morning call from her ex-husband, a homicide detective, informing her about a recent murder; the horribly mutilated body of a priest, wearing only a clerical collar, has just been found off of Interstate 95 in New York. The murder is eerily similar to a troublesome and unsolved case that Cate worked on less than a year ago. The only difference between the two victims is that the second body has a handwritten message in Latin scrawled across the inside of the priestly collar: a message from Dante's Divine Comedy, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." With the priests' murders heavily on her mind, Cate's investigation into the missing boy leads her to the august office of a New Jersey archbishop who, she strongly believes, has been hiding pedophile priests for years, transferring them from one parish to another. Discovering there may be a solid connection between the priests' murders and the missing boy, Cate places her own life in danger to solve her case and bring a pedophile to justice.