St. Rita's is a vibrant suburban church whose parishioners liked things on the traditional side: old-fashioned hymns from the choir and no-nonsense preaching from the priests, pious devotions in the chapel and warm pastries in the rectory kitchen.
All that ends the day the liturgist arrives.
He promises to bring the parish "up to date," to get more people to "participate," to make the Mass more appealing to the tastes of modern Catholics. But all he does is make enemies; it seems St. Rita's isn't ready to "sing a new church into being" quite yet. So when the liturgist turns up dead, under violent and mysterious circumstances, everyone is a suspect
Murray, Lorraine V.