All Mortal Flesh

All Mortal Flesh by Spencer-Fleming, Julia. mass_market edition. ISBN: 0884503827179.

Police Chief Russ Van Alstynes first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in an emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn had been left on the steps of the towns Episcopal church, where Clare just happened to be the new priest. That night in the hospital was the beginning of an attraction so fierce, so forbidden, that both Russ and Clare risked compromising all of their ethics and beliefs… In the small community of Millers Kill, gossip spreads like wildfire. So when Russs wife kicks him out of the house, he figures its nobodys business but his own―until a neighbor stops by and finds Mrs. Van Alstynes butchered corpse on the kitchen floor. To the townspeople and church folk, the murder is proof that the whispered rumors about the police chief and the priest were true. But nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships―and evil waits inside quaint white clapboard farmhouses… In All Mortal Flesh, Julia Spencer-Fleming once again delivers a riveting page-turner of a mystery "thats quite possibly the best in the series" (Romantic Times).