Dan Gill is a life long Catholic and a Chicago Police Detective. When a well liked Chicago priest is found murdered in his confession Gill is assigned to the case. Soon he finds that this priest is only one of many that are slated to be murdered by a mad man roaming the streets of the city. This fast paced crime novel brings the reader to know the inner-workings of the Church and the human aspect of the clergy. As the Detective unwraps the many layers of the murder, he realizes that every peson has a past and that the past can often catch up with them.