Book jacket has some chipping along the edges The Mysterious Press, 1987, 238 pages Exquisitely nubile and very rebellious Fionna Downs has a fantasy about her grandmother, the richly loathed, perversely loved, and arrogantly wealthy Violet Enright. Somebody shoots the domineering matriarch aboard her luxury yacht, sneaks out the door, locks it from the outside, and disappears, presumably somewhere into Lake Michigan. Suspects among family members and self-professed friends would be dazzlingly abundant. There would be the hippie ex-priest with the jewel-crazy wife, the bisexual surgeon with the nymphomaniacal wife, the discredited bishop, the somewhat sinister banker, and the mysterious visitor from Mayo. Plus... as a kind of thrilling and terrifying afterthought, young Fionna herself. When, inevitably, Fionna's flight of fancy turns perilously real, her dreams of a perfect crime turn into a nightmare of scandal with the prospect of a long, bleak imprison-ment. But if Fionna didn't kill the ill-fated Violet, who did? It's a question that the wise and gentle Father Blackie Ryan must answer-and soon. Because Violet's killer not only is ready to strike again, but is hunting down someone in Blackie's own family.. making this the most dangerous-and the most frightening-mystery the usually implacable priest has ever had to solve.