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The Gathering

Years after undergoing the rigors of the seminary, Father Robert Koestler joins his old friends for a reunion of sorts, but his sleuthing talents are soon called on after one of their members is found dead. Reprint.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780740722295 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Years after undergoing the rigors of the seminary, Father Robert Koestler joins his old friends for a reunion of sorts, but his sleuthing talents are soon called on after one of their members is found dead.

Paperback:

9780345457943 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Kienzle's final novel, published posthumously, traces the lives of a group of six friends who intended to become priests and nuns, from the 1940s until the death of one of their number from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Sacrifice

During the ceremony in which a former Anglican pastor, Father George Wheatley, is to be received into the Roman Catholic priesthood, a bomb explodes, killing another elderly priest, and Father Koesler must find a killer amid the jealousy, prejudice, and anger surrounding the occasion and find out who made the phone call that made Wheatley late to his own murder. Reprint.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780740712265 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A former Anglican pastor shares his ultimately tragic story of conversion to Catholicism--an act that triggered ambition, jealousy, and intense hatred among his colleagues.

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9780449007129 | Ballantine Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: During the ceremony in which a former Anglican pastor, Father George Wheatley, is to be received into the Roman Catholic priesthood, a bomb explodes, killing another elderly priest, and Father Koesler must find a killer amid the jealousy, prejudice, and anger surrounding the occasion and find out who made the phone call that made Wheatley late to his own murder.

9780345482983 | Fawcett Books, February 26, 2002, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: EXPLOSIVE OFFERINGSPrecisely when the solemn ceremony receiving renegade Episcopal priest Father George Wheatley into the Roman Catholic priesthood is set to begin, a bomb explodes under the altar.

Masquerade

Product Description: A rabbi, a nun, a monk, and an Episcopal priest - all mystery writers - have been invited to appear at Marygrove College to speak at a mystery writers' conference. Although different in denomination, they all have one thing in common: they loathe the featured speaker, the popular and sleazy televangelist, the Reverend Klaus Krieg...read more

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261264 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A mystery writers' conference gets a dose of real-life crime when the featured speaker, the wildly unpopular Reverend Klaus Krieg, is killed, and Father Koesler must enlist the aid of Alonzo 'Zoo' Tully to catch a killer

Paperback:

9780345366207 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A mystery writers' conference gets a dose of real-life crime when the featured speaker, the wildly unpopular Reverend Klaus Krieg, is killed, and Father Koesler must enlist the aid of Alonzo 'Zoo' Tully to catch a killer

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736671736 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, November 1, 2001), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: A rabbi, a nun, a monk, and an Episcopal priest - all mystery writers - have been invited to appear at Marygrove College to speak at a mystery writers' conference.

Till Death

A special bond links a group of four people together - Father Rick Casserly, gorgeous former nun Dora Ricardo, defrocked priest Jerry Anderson, and compassinate school principal Lil Niedermier, but when this bond is shattered by murder, only Father Koesler is qualified to discover the startling truth. Reprint.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780740704895 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Father Robert Koesler investigates when death follows from the complications that arise when Father Rick Casserly's secret affair with the principal of the parochial school becomes a triangle when a former nun falls for him.

Paperback:

9780449007136 | 1 reprint edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 2001), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A special bond links a group of four people together - Father Rick Casserly, gorgeous former nun Dora Ricardo, defrocked priest Jerry Anderson, and compassinate school principal Lil Niedermier, but when this bond is shattered by murder, only Father Koesler is qualified to discover the startling truth.

Marked for Murder

Product Description: The time's the same - Sunday afternoons. The victims are the same - older prostitutes who cruise Detroit's seedier streets. The method's the same - a gruesome ritual murder that leaves the victims mutilated and branded with a strange message to a shocked city...read more

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261240 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In Detroit's inner city, older prostitutes are being picked up by a man in clerical garb, only to be found strangled , mutilated, and strangely branded, leaving Father Robert Koesler to solve his toughest case yet

Paperback:

9780345353979 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The time is always the same -- Sunday afternoons.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736663571 | Abridged edition (Books on Tape, March 1, 2001), cover price $56.00 | About this edition: The time's the same - Sunday afternoons.

Bishop As Pawn

Product Description: When a seemingly innocent game of chess turns lethal, the serene St. Anne's Parish becomes a devilish murder scene. Most of the Detroit clergymen agree that the victim, Bishop Ramon Diego, abused his power by treating the loyal and devoted as mere pawns, making them prime suspects in his unholy demise...read more

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9780836261301 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Venerable priest and reluctant sleuth Father Robert Koesler investigates the murder of Bishop Ramon Diego, the unlikeable, self-serving new bishop, a killing for which many of his fellow priests have possible motives

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9780345388001 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Venerable priest and reluctant sleuth Father Robert Koesler investigates the murder of Bishop Ramon Diego, the unlikeable, self-serving new bishop, a killing for which many of his fellow priests have possible motives

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736661072 | Collectors edition (Books on Tape, January 1, 2001), cover price $56.00 | About this edition: When a seemingly innocent game of chess turns lethal, the serene St.

Body Count

Product Description: Father John Keating is murdered, and the man who did it reveals all to Father Koesler under the sacred seal of the confessional. Ever the traditionalist, Koesler knows he is bound to tell no one. Fortunately, the new priest-in-residence, Father Nick Dunn, has overheard the killer's confession...read more

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9780836261288 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When a man confesses to Father Koesler about murdering a priest, Father Dunn, the new priest at the rectory, overhears the conversation and challenges the seal of confession, which guarantees silence

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9780345377678 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1993), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When a man confesses to Father Koesler about murdering a priest, Father Dunn, the new priest at the rectory, overhears the conversation and challenges the seal of confession, which guarantees silence

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736655309 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, July 1, 2000), cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Father John Keating is murdered, and the man who did it reveals all to Father Koesler under the sacred seal of the confessional.

No Greater Love

In his twentyfirst mystery, Father Robert Koesler, now a retired priest, takes up residence at St. Joseph's Seminary at the request of his longtime friend, Bishop Patrick McNiff, and finds himself investigating a murder that touches on the foundations of his faith. Reprint.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836278651 | Andrews McMeel Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Father Robert Koesler, now retired, takes up residence at St.

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9780345426390 | Fawcett Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Father Robert Koesler, now retired, takes up residence at St.

The Greatest Evil

Just as Father Robert Koesler is getting ready to retire, a murder is committed, and his investigative instincts get the better of him as he strives to find the killer. Reprint. AB.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836252064 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Just as Father Robert Koesler is getting ready to retire, a murder is committed, and his investigative instincts get the better of him as he strives to find the killer

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9780345426383 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Just as Father Robert Koesler is getting ready to retire, a murder is committed, and his investigative instincts get the better of him as he strives to find the killer

The Man Who Loved God

Father Zachary Tully and his half-brother, police lieutenant Zoo Tully, must solve the murder of the husband of a woman who is having an affair with four different men, in the nineteenth installment of the Father Koesler series. Reprint.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836227543 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: After the husband of a woman who is having an affair with four different men is murdered in one of the worst neighborhoods in Detroit, Father Zachary Tully and his half-brother, police lieutenant Alonzo 'Zoo' Tully must solve the murder

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9780345402905 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: After the husband of a woman who is having an affair with four different men is murdered in one of the worst neighborhoods in Detroit, Father Zachary Tully and his half-brother, police lieutenant Alonzo 'Zoo' Tully, must solve the murder

Requiem for Moses

Holding an unofficial wake for the late Dr. Moses Green, a Jewish man, Father Koesler learns that several people are glad the doctor is dead, and everything descends into chaos when Green returns from the dead. Reprint. AB.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836210422 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The eighteenth Father Koesler whodunit focuses on the death of the totally reprehensible Dr.

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9780345402912 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Holding an unofficial wake for the late Dr.

Homicide Host Presents: A Collection of Original Mysteries

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By Ann Blaine, Sandra Brewer, Carol Caverly, Loren D. Estleman, Edward D. Hoch, Hugh Holton, William X. Kienzle, Margaret Lawrence, John Lutz, Helen Esper Olmsted, Marthayn Pelegrimas, Robert J. Randisi, Thomas Sullivan and Mark Richard Zubro

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9781885173140 | Write Way Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $25.00

Call No Man Father

As Detroit prepares for a visit from the Pope, Father Koesler finds himself trying to protect the pontiff from a host of dangerous predators intent on assassination. By the author of Bishop as Pawn. Reprint. AB. PW.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261318 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Assisting police efforts to secure Detroit for a visit from the pope, Father Koesler becomes alarmed when a visiting priest is murdered days before the pope's arrival and he finds himself becoming a pawn in church political games

Paperback:

9780345388018 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: As Detroit prepares for a visit from the Pope, Father Koesler finds himself trying to protect the pontiff from a host of dangerous predators intent on assassination.

Kill and Tell

Product Description: When auto exec Frank Hoffman is murdered, nobody, not even the police, has a clue -- except Father Koesler. The sleuthing priest has heard some shocking news in the sanctity of the confessional. And now there's danger that a new victim will breathe his last -- but the honor-bound Father can't breathe a word ...read more

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9780816137794 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1984), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Father Koesler threads his way through the boardrooms and backrooms of the auto industry in search of the person who is trying to kill rising executive Frank Hoffman

9780836261202 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Father Koesler threads his way through the boardrooms and backrooms of the auto industry in search of the person who is trying to kill rising executive Frank Hoffman

Paperback:

9780345318565 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When auto exec Frank Hoffman is murdered, nobody, not even the police, has a clue -- except Father Koesler.

Dead Wrong

When a dying real-estate magnate begs him to sever a scandalous affair between their families, Father Koesler finds himself stalking a thirty-year-old murder mystery and closely followed by the desperate killer. Reprint.

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261295 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: While looking into the affairs of family members, Father Robert Koesler stumbles upon the thirty-year-old unsolved murder of Agnes Ventimiglia

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9780345377661 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: While looking into the affairs of family members, Father Robert Koesler stumbles upon the thirty-year-old unsolved murder of Agnes Ventimiglia

Mind over Murder

Product Description: The Monsignor's Cadillac is found in the parking lot. Inside are traces of blood and a shell from a .32 automatic. All that's missing is the Monsignor. He leaves behind a handful of surprising antagonists and a diary full of confidences that may prove revealing to Detroit's diligent Father Koesler...read more

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9780836261141 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Father Koesler and two extraordinary Detroit reporters track down the murderer of greedy, selfish Monsignor Thomas Thompson, head of the marriage tribunal of the Catholic Church in Detroit

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9780345356673 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The Monsignor's Cadillac is found in the parking lot.

Death Wears a Red Hat

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By William X. Kienzle

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9780708906477 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1981), cover price $29.99

9780836261110 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Father Bob Koessler is called into the case when the bloodless, decapitated heads of Detroit's underworld leaders are found perched atop headless statues in Detroit churches

Paperback:

9780345356697 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: paperbound

Chameleon

The murder of a prostitute convinces Father Robert Koesler that the killer has a disdain for members of the clergy when the murdered woman turns out to be the sister of a nun. Reprint. AB. PW.

By William X. Kienzle

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9781560541943 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 1991), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: When a prostitute clad in a nun's habit is found murdered outside a prestigious Detroit church, Father Koesler delves into church politics to find what may be the path of a serial killer

9780836261271 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a prostitute clad in a nun's habit is found murdered outside a prestigous Detroit church, Father Koesler delves into church politics to find what may be the path of a serial killer

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9780345366214 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When a prostitute clad in a nun's habit is found murdered outside a prestigious Detroit church, Father Koesler delves into church politics to find what may be the path of a serial killer

9781560549765 | Large print edition (Chivers Audio Books, June 1, 1991), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When a prostitute clad in a nun's habit is found murdered outside a prestigious Detroit church, Father Koesler delves into church politics to find what may be the path of a serial killer

Sudden Death

When Hank 'the Hun' Hunsinger, the thirty-seven-year-old Pontiac Cougars tight end, is found murdered, Father Koestler sets the investigation on the God Squad, a bible study group of which he and Hunsinger are members

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261219 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When Hank 'the Hun' Hunsinger, the thirty-seven-year-old Pontiac Cougars tight end, is found murdered, Fr.

Paperback:

9780345328519 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When Hank 'the Hun' Hunsinger, the thirty-seven-year-old Pontiac Cougars tight end, is found murdered, Father Koestler sets the investigation on the God Squad, a bible study group of which he and Hunsinger are members

Eminence

Father Koesler investigates a Detroit monastery that is causing a commotion for its alleged performing of miracles and its connections with embezzlement and murder

By William X. Kienzle

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Hardcover:

9780836261257 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Father Koesler and Lieutenant Alonzo

Paperback:

9780345353955 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Father Koesler investigates a Detroit monastery that is causing a commotion for its alleged performing of miracles and its connections with embezzlement and murder

Shadow of Death

By William X. Kienzle

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9780345331106 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | also contains Max to the Rescue

Rosary Murders

Wily, young, and worldly Father Robert Koesler faces agonizing choices as he becomes involved in the events of a dead priest and a dead nun

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261011, titled "The Rosary Murders" | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The investigators on the Detroit homicide team headed by Lieutenant Walter Koznicki are unable to solve a string of senseless murders in the city's Catholic community until Father Koesler breaks the madman murderer's code

Paperback:

9780345356680, titled "The Rosary Murders" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Wily, young, and worldly Father Robert Koesler faces agonizing choices as he becomes involved in the events of a dead priest and a dead nun

9780896212053 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1988), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: "A sophisticated and baffling thriller .

9780061317064, titled "The Rosary Murders" | Harpercollins, March 1, 1978, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The investigators on the Detroit homicide team headed by Lieutenant Walter Koznicki are unable to solve a string of senseless murders in the city's Catholic community until Father Koesler breaks the madman murderer's code

Deadline for a Critic

Product Description: At a word from critic Ridley Groendal, plays closed overnight. Concert halls went silent. Books gathered dust on bookstore shelves. Thus, many sought revenge. But four were close enough to exact it. The playwright. The violinist. The author...read more

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261233 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Detroit performing arts critic Ridley Groendal dies suddenly, Father Robert Koesler investigates and discovers at least five people with good reason to kill Groendal--including Groendal's long-time companion Peter Harison

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9780345331908 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: At a word from critic Ridley Groendal, plays closed overnight.

Deathbed

When Father Koesler becomes chaplain at an inner-city Detroit hospital, he discovers that the beds are used for more than convalescence and that the dark passageways lead to murder

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261226 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Father Koesler becomes chaplain in an inner-city Detroit hospital he discovers that the beds are used for more than convalescence and that the dark passageways lead to murder

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9780345331892 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1987), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When Father Koesler becomes chaplain at an inner-city Detroit hospital, he discovers that the beds are used for more than convalescence and that the dark passageways lead to murder

Assault With Intent

When Father Koesler investigates a mysterious series of violent attacks on priests, he finds himself a target for murder

By William X. Kienzle

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9780836261172 | Andrews McMeel Pub, April 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When Father Koesler investigates a mysterious series of violent attacks on priests, he finds himself a target for murder

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9780345332837 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1985), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When Father Koesler investigates a mysterious series of violent attacks on priests, he finds himself a target for murder

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