November 2020
It’s Groundhog month again. We’re going around in circles with no idea where we are going. So much has changed this year for us and it will be a long time before things get any better. The coronavirus still plagues us, the government cannot win whatever it does, people are not listening, and in the meantime, the government runs out of money keeping the country afloat.
As for me I am working and am trying to get another novel out. After a few eeks mulling it over I have changed to the tile of the next novel from The Street Kidd, to The Priest.
Why?
The story wasn’t about a Street Kidd, but more so a Priest with some dirty cassocks. And here is the synopsis folks.
Father Eoin O’Brien, an Irish born, Catholic Priest, holds his position by design, not by choice. For years, while living in Dublin, he successfully hid a secret past. However, secrets are difficult to hide, and the suicide of a gay student attracts the attention of Irish Garda Sheila Dougherty. She builds a case against the Priest only to be warned off by senior officers. In disgust, she resigns and moves to England and joins the Thames Valley Police.
By coincidence, many years later as a serving Detective Sergeant, she is called to investigate a fire at a rectory and interviews a badly burned Father O’Brien. While his Curate Samuel Patrick accuses three homeless teenagers, known as The Trio, O’Brien remains silent. However, when the trio are identified as victims of a serial killer known as The Skinner Sheila Dougherty begins to connect the dots.
She joins up with detectives Grant and Johnson and joins the Skinner task force. When an undercover police officer living as a homeless man goes missing after an incident in London’s Piccadilly, the task force is led to a farm where they make a gruesome discovery.
As the police close in Father Eoin O’ Brien meet two men, he abused as boys. They carry with them a gift made for nightmares and unwittingly offer the police the chance to kill two birds with one stone…