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Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers - and occasionally investigating murders himself - but he's never come up against anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned German theologian who has been found dead on the altar of an old church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saint Cecilia's Day. The controversial priest, once a top insider in the Vatican, was known to provoke strong feelings in Catholics, and now those feelings have overflowed with horrifying results.

En el verano de 1959 Joyce Haney, una ama de casa con dos hijas pequeñas, desaparece sin dejar rastro. La primera en llegar a la casa y darse cuenta de su ausencia es su asistenta del hogar, Ruby Wight, quien, por ser afroamericana, es inmediatamente detenida como sospechosa, en lugar de como testigo.