The cats were missing. Mother Lavinia Grey noticed the signs pleading for the return of "Fluffy" and several other pets. But she was busy planning her first wedding at St. Bede's Episcopal Church -- for which she'd serve as the priest, not the bride -- and didn't connect the mysterious catnappings with the signs of a satanic cult. Until the other troubles began. Of course, Lucifer wasn't to blame for the return of a vengeful ex-con to placid Fishersville (or was he?). But a series of burglaries and the donation of a freezer chest to St. Bede's filled with something most macabre soon has Mother Grey researching the "Clavicles of Solomon" and looking for hexagrams. And with her companion, Detective Dave Dogg, out of town, she has only the Lord's help, and her own sharp wit, to find out who was doing the devil's handwork when a body -- headless and unnamed -- is found....
Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance fiction prize for The Edge of Ruin, Kate Gallison writes the Emily Daggett Weiss silent movie mysteries under the name of Irene Fleming.
As Kate Gallison she wrote the acclaimed Mother Lavinia Grey murder mystery series about the struggles of a woman priest in the Episcopal church in a small New Jersey town, and another series about Nick Magaracz, a Trenton private detective.
She lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with her husband and their cat. She is descended from a convicted Salem witch.
