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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Gathering was the twenty-fourth in Kienzle's series of mysteries, featuring Father Robert Koesler as a Roman Catholic priest whose intuitiveness and caring nature have led him to an unusual calling: solving mysteries, mostly of the murderous kind. In this entry, revisit Koesler's adolescent and teen years, to a time when young Catholic men and women were encouraged, even expected, to become priests and nuns, whether or not their vocation was real....
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery. -Publishers Weekly "... good character analysis and a tantalizing story make this one of Kienzle's best." -Library Journal "As Kienzle addresses serious modern issues, he stops to digress and tell his wonderful stories. He always plays fair with readers, though, providing a neat solution with a twist." -Chicago Tribune It's curtains for Ridley Groendal. When the performing arts...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As regular as the solstice, Kienzle annually provides a new Catholic whodunit, inviting the readers to shut out the rest of the world and spend a few absorbing hours watching his venerable alter ego, Koesler, peel back the layers of a puzzle to plumb the tortured depths of the human should and elegantly solve a murder. -Chicago Tribune "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I killed a priest." So begins Father Robert Koesler's fourteenth compelling...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The realistic setting, discussions of theology and humanism add to the appealing the author's new urbane, witty mystery.-Publishers Weekly Score another direct hit by Father Koesler and William Kienzle." -Kansas City Star In Deathbed, the eighth book in a series by acclaimed mystery writer William X. Kienzle, Father Robert Koesler takes on a temporary tour of duty as chaplain in a Detroit hospital whose dark passageways lead eventually to murder....
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the good old Dorothy Sayers/John Dickson Carr school of homicide with civilized people doing what civilized people do best: dispatching each other. -Los Angeles Times "Bill Kienzle does have a way with a tale. And a nifty way of mixing Church dogma and gossip into the plot." -New York Daily News "Each Kienzle novel seems to top the last. As we have said before, give us this day our daily Kienzle." -West Coast Review of Books From William X....
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary tale of justice and morality . . . -Otto Penzler, Edgar Award Winner and Owner of the Mysterious Bookshop, New York City "... another dandy tale of homicide with an ecclesiastic twist . . . a fast-moving plot with amusing sidelights." -New York Daily News "Every time I open a book, I hope this one is going to be really smashing, exciting, outstanding. This one is. Death Wears a Red Hat is the kind of mystery that I read the others...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bill Kienzle's best yet. -Detroit Free Press "It is miraculous, but the third Father Koesler is even better than the first two. It is without reservation the best series ever about a priest detective." -Otto Penzler, owner, Mysterious Bookshop, New York City "Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -Baltimore Sun Father Robert Koesler unravels his third mystery, this time zeroing in on one of six suspects, each with a motive for revenge, to solve...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Readers will be turning the pages into the wee hours of the night, trying to solve the mystery along with Tully and Koesler. -West Coast Review of Books Has the Detroit Police Department found the perpetrator of one of the most gruesome serial murders in Detroit's history-the brutal mutilation of prostitutes? Father Robert Koesler has a special interest in solving one of the most challenging cases in his career. In this tenth Kienzle mystery, Koesler-Detroit's...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Another Kienzle top seller. Excellent in style and story. Original and timely. -Lucy Freeman, Mystery Writers of America From William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders. A bizarre plot to destroy the papacy seems to be the motive for murder in this fifth thriller from best-selling mystery writer William X. Kienzle. One cardinal is brutally murdered in his own church. Another is slain in the Vatican. A clue is left at the...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Kienzle's are the best books ever written about a cleric and among the best of everything in the past quarter century. -Otto Penzler, in Mystery Magazine "There are few authors whose books a reader anticipates from the moment he finished the last effort. . . . Add William Kienzle to the list." -Dallas Times Herald "Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -Baltimore Sun In the fourth Father Koesler thriller, William X. Kienzle proved his versatility....
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As more than a million readers have learned to their delight, Kienzle is a font of funny stories. He has created one of the most likable and authentic of all recent sleuths-the shy, sly Father Koesler-whose exploits into crime and insights into parish life have continued in seven gossipy and cozy mysteries. -Chicago Tribune "Kienzle's best book since The Rosary Murders." -Publishers Weekly "It's a cracking good mystery." -Houston Chronicle When Father...
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