William X Kienzle
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sophisticated and baffling thriller ... a real bone-freezer. -Publishers Weekly "Ingenious, witty, literate-at once irreverent and compassionate-an impressive tour indeed for a first-time novelist." -Los Angeles Times "Well-paced, tightly written, exciting as hell, and, quite possibly, the best mystery I've read in years." -Dallas Times-Herald The Rosary Murders was William X. Kienzle's first Father Koesler mystery, published in 1978. Twenty-three...
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The Gathering was the twenty-fourth in Kienzle's series of mysteries, featuring Father Robert Koesler as a Roman Catholic priest whose intuitiveness and caring nature have led him to an unusual calling: solving mysteries, mostly of the murderous kind. In this entry, revisit Koesler's adolescent and teen years, to a time when young Catholic men and women were encouraged, even expected, to become priests and nuns, whether or not their vocation was real....
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Readers will be turning the pages into the wee hours of the night, trying to solve the mystery along with Tully and Koesler. -West Coast Review of Books Has the Detroit Police Department found the perpetrator of one of the most gruesome serial murders in Detroit's history-the brutal mutilation of prostitutes? Father Robert Koesler has a special interest in solving one of the most challenging cases in his career. In this tenth Kienzle mystery, Koesler-Detroit's...
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
Bill Kienzle's best yet. -Detroit Free Press "It is miraculous, but the third Father Koesler is even better than the first two. It is without reservation the best series ever about a priest detective." -Otto Penzler, owner, Mysterious Bookshop, New York City "Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -Baltimore Sun Father Robert Koesler unravels his third mystery, this time zeroing in on one of six suspects, each with a motive for revenge, to solve...
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Another Kienzle top seller. Excellent in style and story. Original and timely. -Lucy Freeman, Mystery Writers of America From William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders. A bizarre plot to destroy the papacy seems to be the motive for murder in this fifth thriller from best-selling mystery writer William X. Kienzle. One cardinal is brutally murdered in his own church. Another is slain in the Vatican. A clue is left at the...
6) Deathbed
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
The realistic setting, discussions of theology and humanism add to the appealing the author's new urbane, witty mystery.-Publishers Weekly Score another direct hit by Father Koesler and William Kienzle." -Kansas City Star In Deathbed, the eighth book in a series by acclaimed mystery writer William X. Kienzle, Father Robert Koesler takes on a temporary tour of duty as chaplain in a Detroit hospital whose dark passageways lead eventually to murder....
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary tale of justice and morality . . . -Otto Penzler, Edgar Award Winner and Owner of the Mysterious Bookshop, New York City "... another dandy tale of homicide with an ecclesiastic twist . . . a fast-moving plot with amusing sidelights." -New York Daily News "Every time I open a book, I hope this one is going to be really smashing, exciting, outstanding. This one is. Death Wears a Red Hat is the kind of mystery that I read the others...
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Kienzle's are the best books ever written about a cleric and among the best of everything in the past quarter century. -Otto Penzler, in Mystery Magazine "There are few authors whose books a reader anticipates from the moment he finished the last effort. . . . Add William Kienzle to the list." -Dallas Times Herald "Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -Baltimore Sun In the fourth Father Koesler thriller, William X. Kienzle proved his versatility....
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1984.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
This is the good old Dorothy Sayers/John Dickson Carr school of homicide with civilized people doing what civilized people do best: dispatching each other. -Los Angeles Times "Bill Kienzle does have a way with a tale. And a nifty way of mixing Church dogma and gossip into the plot." -New York Daily News "Each Kienzle novel seems to top the last. As we have said before, give us this day our daily Kienzle." -West Coast Review of Books From William X....
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