The Bishop's Man

Linden MacIntyre · 2009 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Father Duncan MacAskill spent years as his bishop's fixer, moving priests accused of abuse quietly from parish to parish, and is now sent to a remote Cape Breton parish. There the past he has helped to bury returns; a novel of the Catholic scandals set in Nova Scotia.

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