Ancient church rituals meet cuttingedge crimesolving in this thriller in the 1 New York Times bestselling series featuring NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Seconds after partaking of wine during a Catholic funeral mass Father Miguel Flores is dead on the altar. Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained enough potassium cyanide to kill a rhino. And though the East Harlem neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband Roarke its the holiness flying around St. Christobals that makes her uneasy. The autopsy reveals faint scars of knife wounds a removed tattooand evidence of plastic surgery suggesting Father Flores may not be the man his parishioners thought. Now as Eve pieces together clues that suggest identity theft gang connections and a deeply personal act of revenge she hopes to track down whoever committed this unholy act. Until a second murderin front of an even larger crowd of worshippersknocks the whole investigation sideways... show more