All Mortal Flesh
Subtitle: A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
Series: Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries (Volume 5)
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: October 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780312312640
Subjects: Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural; Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; Episcopalians; Fergusson, Clare (Fictitious character); Van Alstyne, Russ (Fictitious character)
Description: One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in Millers Kill, where nothing is as it seems . . . and betrayal twists old friendships and evil waits inside quaint farmhouses.

Russ Van Alstyne figures his wife kicking him out of their house is nobody's business but his own. Until a neighbor pays a friendly visit to Linda Van Alstyne and finds the woman's body, gruesomely butchered, on the kitchen floor. To the state police, it's an open-and-shut case of a disaffected husband silencing his wife and putting a stop to the murder investigation he controls. To the townspeople, it's proof that the whispered gossip about the police chief and the priest was true. To the powers-that-be in the church hierarchy, it's a chance to control their wayward cleric once and for all. Russ and Clare must struggle against the reach of the law, the authority of the church, and their own guilty hearts.