'Robert Barnard is always original, never repeats himself and has a delectable wit' Jessica Mann, Daily Telegraph Cosmo Horrocks was over the moon. This was the juiciest story he'd had in years. In his job as an investigative journalist he spent his working days grubbing through the garbage bins of other people's lives (undeterred by the fact that his own wouldn't bear too much investigation), but this one seemed to have everything: religion -- the man was a Catholic priest; sex -- he was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother; money -- he was thought to have channelled parish funds in her direction. All the story lacked was mystery, but when it acquired that too Cosmo soon found himself out of his depth. The parish of St.
