Ancient church rituals meet cutting- edge crime solving in the latest novel in the #1 "New York Times"abestselling series thatas a"Law and Order: SVU"ain the futurea ("Entertainment Weekly"). "In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer." Ridley Pearson has praised J. D. Robbas suspense as atauta and anerve-jangling.a Her latest thriller sets a new standard for suspense, as the priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the chalice to his lipsaand falls over dead. When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, sheas determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings. Itas not the bodegas and pawnshops of East Harlem that bother her, though the neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband, Roarke. Itas all that holiness flying around at St. Christobalas that makes her uneasy. A search of the victimas sparsely furnished room reveals littlea except for a carefully hidden religious medal with a mysterious inscription, and a couple of underlined Bible passages. The autopsy reveals more: faint scars of knife wounds, a removed tattooaand evidence of plastic surgery, suggesting that aFather Floresa may not have been the man his parishioners had thought. Now, as Eve pieces together clues that hint at gang connections and a deeply personal act of revenge, she believes sheas making progress on the case. Until a second murderain front of an even larger crowd of worshippersaknocks the whole investigation sideways. And Eve is left to figure out who committed these unholy actsaand why.