My Father's Sins: A MIke Richey Mystery - Paperback

by Dale Osborn Rains (Author)

The Reverend Michael Richey, rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church and chaplain to the Madison Police Department, is blessed with a beautiful family, an enthusiastic congregation, and a fulfilling ministry to the homeless men and women of Madison, South Carolina. However when the police discover the body of a homeless man in a street-side stairwell, MPD Chief Detective Jerry Majors surprisingly implicates Father Mike in the old man's murder. To prove his innocence, Mike pledges to find the killer himself, despite the strong objections of his close friend, Police Detective Carlos Ruiz, and his beloved bishop, the Right Reverend Barbara Michener. Then Mike makes an earth-shattering discovery: the killer is targeting him--and not only him but also his ten-year-old son, Tim. Now he's working against time. He must find the killer--now.

Author Biography

DALE OSBORN RAINS I WAS BORN in the Louisiana town of Marthaville, a community consisting of 250 souls in the metropolitan area. I had the distinct honor of being the great-great-grandson of the town's founder, who named it after his wife Martha. That, of course, did absolutely nothing for my financial situation or my social status. I was usually considered the kid who would never get into much trouble and who would go to seminary and pastor Southern fundamentalist churches for the rest of my life. Probably my two greatest acts of rebellion were majoring in theater (that took care of the first of these assumptions) and becoming an Episcopalian (that took care of the second). I spent over forty years of my life teaching, acting, playwriting, and directing theater. Somewhere in that forty years, my wife and I found the time to build-much of it with our own hands-a geodesic dome home. But I found very little time to write. Now I take up my pen to write a murder mystery--my favorite genre. I've always admired the pens of Poe, Christie, Doyle, Kellerman-both of them-Follet, Grafton, Eco, and scores of others. So here's hoping that someone somewhere will enjoy my humble contribution to the genre. www.DaleOsbornRains.com