Novel Proposal - St. Zita's Tears

Author note - This novel is currently being rewritten - I expect to have the new version ready by December.

A priest drowns in his own bathtub, a subject overlooked by all the media except for the sensationalist tabloid newspaper the Herald Bagatelle. Reporter NAN McHOUGH is sent to investigate the drowning and to write a leading news article on the event. What she finds is that the priest was murdered.

Her investigation into the case places McHough and her new family in personal danger. She is aided in investigation by SHERYL HOWARD, another Bagatelle reporter, and GABBY, a young Hispanic woman.

Her boss LEE BURKE suffers a heart attack and is replaced by MIKE MILLS, a British hard line conservative journalist – whose intent is to rid the Bagatelle newsroom of slackers like McHough and Howard.

McHough finds that she must work outside the news paper in order to explore the underbelly of the crime. The villains plot to destroy church credibility also turns on Nan, who relies on her faith to see her though to the end.

Read a scene from St. Zita's Tears