Susan Mathis

Enjoy this Contemporary Small Town Sleuthing Couple Mystery Father Tom's stepfather Stu comes to the rescue when a con man runs off with the proceeds from Saint Clare's Christmas fundraiser. The Festive Fraud is the twenty-eighth book in The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to The Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters.
It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.