The final book of the trilogy

`The Sixth Commandment`

The third book of the trilogy centres on a Catholic Priest with a troubled past. His transfer to a new Parish for health reasons starts off within his first week when he helps to recover a body from the local river. Little did he realise this event would be instrumental in linking him again with his troubled past when a couple of days later listening to a young woman’s confession whose life has been tormented by witnessing a Killing as a child.
The Body from the river now, identified as Bryan Kinley, was an Insurance assessor of Antiques who has been missing for two days. The police investigation led by DCI Jim Langton and his colleague DI Harry Mills soon find themselves caught up in a most intriguing case. Prior to Kunley’s death he had received 3 cards in the mail. The captions on the cards, two eyes shut tight, on the first, both ears muffled on the second and the mouth zipped tight on the third, followed by the fourth caption a few days later, two hands in prayer with a question mark protruding from the tip of the fingers.
The question to Langton by the priest over a friendly drink, `Is there such a thing as a justifiable killing` seemed to Jim Langton an odd question from a priest whose Church like others espouses the Sixth Commandment` as an essential part of the creed. Thou shalt not kill. The subject was approached again later between Langton and the priest. On several occasions, Langton would be drawn to the priest; he sensed there was something bothering his clerical friend. Langton liked the priest, so what was the secret he was hiding?
During the investigation involving Auctions, valuable painting goes missing. A dealer who originally had engaged Kinley to value paintings for him, has two women companions, both complete opposites. Complications arise when Langton makes enquiries back in his old patch in the East End of London when he was with the Met. The priest had also been one of a team of priests at St.Johns Church in the East End, but it was after Langton had left the Met to come to Abbottsford when a valuable painting, `The Lord at Prayer` in the style of a Duucio had been stolen. The priest had been questioned by the police and cleared, but was sent for again. But no charge was ever made against him.
Another murder prior to a special auction and like the first, the victim had received the 3 cards the same as Kimley and the fourth a few days later. There are many twists and turns in this bizaar investigation, Not until the final chapter will the truth be known, but thats how I like it.

The final question that had to be solved —Who is Rosie?