The Christmas Night Murder — Lee Harris

UNHOLY NIGHT...

It's a snowy Christmas at St. Stephen's Convent, where a cheerful party awaits an old friend and former confessor, Father Hudson McCormick, who's making his first visit in seven years. He never arrives.

Worried Sister Joseph asks Christine Bennett, a former St. Stephen's nun, to quietly investigate. But the nuns are mum, until an old scandal involving the priest and a St. Stephen's novice once more rears its ugly head. Has Father McCormick, unable to face the scene of his sins, gone underground? Or has someone taken belated revenge, insuring that the truth will never be known?

Every signpost points to the past -- to a troubled young woman who committed suicide and a once prominent family that has vanished as quietly and mysteriously as Father McCormick himself ...