An Owen Keane Mystery

Owen Keane, a seminarian in the wilds of southern Indiana, is at risk of failure. When an insightful priest offers him a chance at redemption by asking him to find a runaway classmate, mystery addict Keane turns the assignment into a search for a fabulous missing sonnet, an investigation into illicit drug trade, and a harrowing confrontation with his darkest fears.

This Mystery Company edition restores to print the third book in the Owen Keane series.

Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-932325-32-4 | 2013 | $16.00

“Owen is one of those seat-of-the-pants amateur sleuths who go dashing after red herrings and leaping to conclusions. He comes up with several rash theories … some wilder than others: a secret girlfriend, a lost vocation, a family trauma, a run-in with local rednecks and, most ingenious, the fortuitous discovery of an unknown Keats manuscript. Owen comes to learn a lot about life in the backwoods of Indiana, and the reader comes to learn a lot about Owen and the searching mind that makes him so interesting.” — The New York Times Book Review

"In this assured, consistently surprising prequel to the Edgar-nominated Deadstick, divinity student Owen Keane struggles to find both his wandering sense of vocation and a missing classmate. A near faultless performance from start to finish." — Publishers Weekly