Zane Yancy had been a cop for a long time. After being ambushed and shot, he was forced into retirement where he retreated to a bottle and self-pity. Successfully clearing Margaret Fontenot of murder (Small Town Murders) introduced the retired cop and reluctant detective into a new career … when pushed by his old antagonist Percy Gaspar or led into it by Megan Tarascon, a lovely ex-school teacher with whom a budding romance is budding. A late night (or very early morning) phone call from Percy triggers his next case. “Holy Murder” takes place in an, to Yancy, the alien land of Chicago. A friend of Percy's, John Winters, has been arrested for murder; a lovely student nurse, Mary Wayne, is being blackmailed by the mob and a minor mob lieutenant is after a chunk of money he thinks one of the characters is coming into. A thugs corpse disappears from the funeral home and its believed by some that that body is a part of a church foundation but as Yancy digs deeper into the case he finds the tentacles of the mob have reached into virtually every aspect of society; including the medical, political, and law enforcement of the bustling city. Murder, prostitution and blackmail prove to be no hindrance to the mobster's greed … only a soft-nosed .45 slug can handle many of the problems. Mature reading. Contains profanity, violence, prostitution and graphic sexual activities.
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