Tears

Gunshots ring out from a car parked across the street from Saint Gerard’s Catholic Church in West Duluth, Minnesota—a picturesque port city on Lake Superior. Four people go down. From that drizzly July afternoon’s violence onward, the action continues nonstop.

Author Pat McGauley’s eleventh novel is a thriller, combining drugs and prostitution with the tragedy of good people making bad decisions. Once again, an unconventional Father Mickey
Moran finds himself as much involved with the local police as he is with his parishioners.

As always, McGauley is a master of drama. His diverse characters are vividly drawn, and storylines are compelling as are the backdrops for his story. Romance, heartbreak, deceit, and
revenge drive this timely page-turner of crime and its ultimate consequences. Readers of his previous novels will be delighted and entertained with the latest Father Mickey mystery; while new readers will discover a riveting work of fiction. “Pat McGauley is an author who knows his territory and knows how to write a compelling story. It would be difficult to find a more authentic literary voice coming out of Minnesota’s North Country today.”