Judas Priest — Ralph M. McInerny

Christopher Bourke is an ex-priest and a former colleague of Roger Dowling. With his wife, Janet Gray - a lapsed nun herself - he co-hosts a cable television show espousing carnal pleasures rather than spiritual aspirations. But when their daughter Sonya plans to enter a convent, Bourke turns to Father Dowling for counsel.

Then Sonya turns up murdered in the back seat of a car, and Dowling's role becomes urgent. Is Chris bourke hiding a secret? Why had Sonya sought to enter the faith her parents had abandoned? As an uneasy Dowling pursues these and other questions, another murder complicates the issue, leading the priest away from his flock toward a killer.