The Father Tom Mysteries

My faith lies in tatters after the events of the summer. I’ve neglected my prayers. I’ve avoided my priestly duties.

I am questioning everything about myself--except my feelings for Helen.

When my estranged sister goes missing, I fly home to look for her--with Helen surprising me on the plane.

My sister’s dead when I arrive. I’m too late to save...

My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer’s bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me.

Fifteen years later, I’m back where it all happened. I just want to forget, but the past won’t leave me alone.

Now, I’m asking a woman who I left broken-hearted twenty years before to catch my wife’s killer.

I’m Father...

My wife’s killer finally caught, I was content to leave Myerton to serve in the isolation of the same monastery where I found my call to the priesthood. The temptations of the past still occupy my mind, but behind these walls I’m safe from them.

A call from the Archbishop sends me back to Saint Clare’s, to find out if a young priest has broken...

With the Archbishop’s blessing, Helen and I are spending Lent building a relationship built on love--but without physical intimacy.

And yes, it’s as hard as it sounds.

But this penitential season, I have other work to do. I need to rebuild my relationship with the families of St. Clare’s after neglecting my duties as their shepherd. I must...

After the astonishing news from the Archbishop, Helen and I are looking forward to possibly having a life together as husband and wife.

That is, if the Holy Father grants me permission.

While awaiting word from the Vatican, we’re getting to know each other more deeply. Going out on dates, spending time together, talking about what our life...

The Pope’s decision to allow Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr to marry captures the imagination of the entire world. Finally, after having to hide their relationship from all but a few close friends (and one particular six year old girl), Tom and Helen can openly proclaim their love for each other, and celebrate with their parish family...

Detective Helen Parr is recovering from being shot in Leslie Williams’ basement and is anxious to get back to work. With the police department in the hands of Acting Chief Detective Dan Conway, Father Tom Greer is determined that his fiance follows her doctor’s orders and rests. All that’s needed for this to happen is for life to be quiet and...

When a beloved older priest is found murdered outside the Rectory, Father Tom and Helen try to find the person who wanted him dead.

But they find that even saints have secrets . . .and those secrets may have gotten him killed.

I take his head in my hands and force him to look at me. “Nate,” I say again, this time more forcefully, “where did all this blood come from?”

This seems to get through, and his unseeing eyes struggle to focus on mine as one whispered word escapes his lips.

“Her.”

When the body of Ashley Becket is found naked, tied up, and butchered in Nate...

Excitement is building as the opening of the Acutis Society’s Fairy Tales and Frights haunted house approaches. The members of Saint Clare’s gaming group have worked hard to transform the interior of the Myer Mansion into something both magical and scary to entertain the families of Myerton as Halloween approaches.

But does an actual ghost walk...

Is stolen money buried somewhere on the Myer College campus? Nate’s newspaper article making the claim triggers a frenzied search for the ill-gotten gain. But when a hundred year old skeleton is found, Father Tom and Helen try to solve a mystery hidden in the mists of time.

After months of waiting, the time has finally arrived.

The day after Christmas, Helen and I will marry.

We’ve survived temptation, gossip, and a bullet meant to end the life of the woman I love.

But are we going to survive the next four weeks?