Lentorama 2024: Clerical Crime Solvers

Day 34: Father Mark Townsend

Father Mark is a Jesuit priest in the Seattle area who first gets involved in a murder inquiry when a lawyer is found stabbed to death with an artifact from an Alaskan tribe that he worked with during time assigned to that state. The priest has to return to the Last Frontier in order to find who the killer is, and how they are connected to the tribe and this particular object.

The series sees Father Mark investigate cases that mostly involve indigenous people (with the last book in the series focusing on migrant farm workers). All of the books are set in the Pacific Northwest, which is where the author, Brad Reynolds (himself a Jesuit) resides.