Last Things

When Eleanor Wygant comes to Father Dowling to enlist his help in persuading her niece Jessica to scrap the novel she is writing and concentrate on more earthly pursuits, the venerable priest and counselor has little idea how enmeshed he is about to become in the family's edgy interrelations. Catholic in name and history, the group has in recent years drifted from the faith, and it's up to Dowling to piece together their shared history in the hopes of putting their demons--and a vicious, previously unknown murder--to rest.