The Cutthroat Cousin: A Contemporary Small Town Sleuthing Couple Murder Mystery

Myerton is excited over Tim Cooper's plans for a town center development on the site of the old Campbell place. To help raise the capital necessary for the project, Tim brings in his cousin Brent, the head of a large venture capital group. But when Brent's partner is found shot to death in his office, Father Tom and Helen are drawn into the seedy world of money laundering in their hunt for a killer.

The Cutthroat Cousin is the twenty-eighth novel 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.