CHAPTER FOURTEEN It was much harder setting up an appointment with the Cardinal’s office than Mackenzie thought. In the end, she’d had to use her bureau sway. She knew that in doing so, there was no way they could deny her—especially with Costas’s murder still in the forefront of the public’s mind. She knew that it would be wishing for the moon to get an appointment with the Cardinal on such short notice, but she did manage to bully her way into an afternoon appointment with one of the auxiliary bishops. In a rather ironic twist of fate, the auxiliary bishop she was meeting with, a man by the name of Barry Whitter, was scheduled to be at Blessed Heart that afternoon to speak with members of the congregation for words of encouragement and worship in the face of the death of Father Costas.

