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When Father Jake Austin is assigned to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in July of 2002, he has been away for a long time. A physician and a war veteran before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order. He takes comfort in his vows of obedience, poverty, chastity, and service to the sick. Jake arrives just in time to attend his high school reunion, where an encounter with his high school sweetheart forces him to question his commitment to the priesthood. Before the night is over, one of his classmates will be dead, a second gravely wounded, and a third hospitalized. The carnage at the reunion comes on the heels of what appears to be an unrelated murder at the quarry. Overseeing the investigation is Jake’s former football teammate, Chief of Police Tremont “Tree” Macon, who is unwilling to rule out anyone as a suspect, not even Jake. As he struggles to prove his innocence and to find his footing in a town that remembers him as a hellion, Jake searches for threads that will connect these brutal attacks. The war may be long past, but in some ways Jake is still waiting for his DEROS: Date of Expected Return from Overseas. Can he put aside his own demons long enough to find the living, breathing devil who stalks his classmates? Book 1 in the Father Jake Austin Mystery series.
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Fr. Jake Austin, the hero of Vanek's promising debut and series launch, returns to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in 2002 to take up a temporary post at a Catholic hospital in nearby Lorain an assignment that coincides with his high school class's 30th reunion. In high school, Jake was a football star and rowdy. He later became a medic in Vietnam, eventually a doctor, and finally a priest. At the reunion, Jake reconnects with such people as police chief Tremont "Tree" Macon, a former football pal; old girlfriend Emily Beale, whose blindness comes as a shock; and Emily's acerbic ex-husband, Everett McDermott. The reunion quickly goes from bad to worse: at the banquet, the speaker collapses, another is attendee is poisoned, and a threatening note seems to target Emily. Late that night, someone shoots Everett at his home, leaving him in a coma. Full of conflicting emotions, Jake has a lot to cope with in a mystery that's as much a character study as a whodunit. The title is an acronym for Date of Expected Return from Overseas the relevance of which isn't immediately obvious. Readers will look forward to seeing more of Jake.