On a cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a pile of black rags floating in the River Blackwater. It is the bloated corpse of Father Heaney, a former music teacher at the local boys' school. His hands and feet are tied, and there are wire strangulation marks around his neck. Worst of all, he has been castrated.
This case rocks the community, and Officer Katie Maguire is under intense pressure to close it quickly. But then another murdered priest is discovered, his body battered and bruised and his limbs tightly bound… and with the same brutal wound hidden under his cassock.
Katie uncovers evidence of a horrific cover-up involving St. Joseph's Orphanage. But her colleagues in the Garda, the Irish police, fear that if they dig too deep, they will incur the wrath of the Catholic diocese. If Katie is to catch the killer before he strikes again, she'll have to face the church hierarchy all alone, and break through a wall of silence that for decades hid a shockingly gruesome secret.
A secret that is, literally, beyond imagination.
Graham Masterton was a successful horror writer for many years before turning to detective fiction. His first book of this kind, Terrible Beauty, was a huge success in its electronic format, selling 100,000 copies within a month. The author lived in Cork for five years, an experience that inspired him to write the series of books starring Katie Maguire.
After "Terrible Beauty", the crime novel that introduced us to Katie Maguire, comes "Wounded Angels", the second big case of the Policewoman, which this time has to do with the Church, the depth of human faith and where can someone reach for her. Follow Katie in this thrilling suspense novel that promises not to disappoint.