Six
I’M TRYING TO MAKE sense of my strange conversion with Dan as I head back to Nate’s room.
The ex-Marine, detective, father, and solid member of the parish and I have clashed before over my—habit? Hobby? I’m not sure what to call it, frankly, my recent tendency to get involved with criminal investigations. While I’ve always loved mystery fiction, until I moved back to Myerton, I never really felt drawn to real-life mysteries.
Joan’s murder being the one exception.
But that seemed to open the floodgates. Anna and Helen have both joked about me being cursed, about Myerton being a nice quiet place before I returned and became pastor of Saint Clare’s. I know they were only kidding, that the murders that have happened were only a coincidence.
But sometimes I do feel like a character in
