Carroll Dorsey's client is parish priest Tom Crimmins, who denies gunning down the husband of the lovely, lascivious lady with whom he'd been having a decidedly non-celibate relationship. But his motives are powerful, his alibi's puny, and a vindictive ex-nun insists she can prove he is the murderer. What's more, Dorsey himself has become the target of a virulent vendetta: D.A. Douglas Turner plans to use his enormous power to see that Dorsey loses his clients, and his license...and it might even cost him his life.
