A Blessed Death — Carroll Lachnit

Hannah Barlow quit the police force to become a lawyer. But challenging the law is different than enforcing it...

Maria Luz Duran was tragically murdered after joining a radical religious sect. Now the Church is hoping that her fame will attract followers--and wants to make her a saint. But the canonization process is called into question when two people disappear: a teenager who was allegedly healed by Duran ... and a priest who was investigating Duran's possible sainthood.

Lawyer Hannah Barlow's connection to the Church is strictly legal. But as she explores the strange disappearances--and confronts her own spiritual longings--she finds that crime, too, works in mysterious ways...