Sign of the Cross

Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times, in his twenty years defending the underclass, has Monty Collins wished for a client who is intelligent, articulate and tattoo-free? Now he has one, but it s not long before his mother s warning comes back to haunt him. Father Brennan Burke was born in Ireland, raised in New York, educated in Rome he s equally fluent in Latin and the language of the street. And he is the prime suspect in the killing of a foxy young girl whose body was found carved with a religious sign, a sign that points straight