"To sniff out the cheese."

Bill was named the Priest because of his seminary training and the help he gave to other inmates during his own twelve year prison sentence. He just one obsession when he was out: to kill the man who had murdered the kid, Mikey, just months before his release. Bill had seen helping the kid as his route to redemption for failing to previously take care of his brother but Mikey's death put an end to that. Bill was pretty sure he knew the identity of the killer, but not any he'd been marked to die. This dark and brutal story of one man's hope for redemption contains violence and murder, conspiracy and kidnap, cynicism and sleezy self interest, ,With the help of a suspended deputy chief prison warden, a bar tender and a suspicious homicide detective who really wants to retire, the whole sordid story unfolds.

Narrator R C Barter tackles the text with exemplary stoiscism. It is a hour novel with plenty of action but still grey and somehow flat. Numerous characters come and leave again, few ever more than names on a page or three and with little or no development. Bafter reading helps give extra life to the main protagonists whilst remaining distant from the others. This is not a selection of likable guys (or girls) and it is easy to lose the thread in the convoluted story. But it is intriguing.

My thanks to the rights holder of I Detest All my Sins, who, at my request freely gifted complimentary copy via Audiobook Boom. It was an intriguing focus on a side of life that most readers will never have to suffer, fortunately, but one about which it is both sad and fascinating to read.

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