Ash Wednesday (Father Dowling Mysteries)
McInerny tackles the euthanasia controversy in his latest Father Dowling mystery. When a former parishioner is paroled after serving 10 years in prison for removing his dying wife from life support, not everyone in St. Hilary’s parish is as supportive as Father Dowling, who believes that Nathanial Green may have confessed to a mercy crime he did not commit. As the good father reaches back into the past to investigate this resurrected case, he also ponders the true nature of sin, forgiveness, and redemption. The twenty-seventh installment in the Dowling chronicles will not disappoint fans of this thoughtfully wrought series of faith-based mysteries. --Margaret Flanagan