Reverend Robert Vander Laan regularly gets into hot water with his Dutch American denomination because of his offbeat ministry to gang kids, hippies and the bar crowd. That kind of trouble seems minor, however, compared with his discovery of a gang girl's bloody corpse. Now Rob must decide whether his ministry includes solving the murder and preventing the murders of more of his "congregation." Death on the Night Watch is a 79,000-word mystery set in 1969 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With a motley crew of helpers-including his seventy-year-old secretary, the president of the Lost Souls gang,...

Reverend Rob Vander Laan prowls an unlikely parish-the dark streets and alleys of 1970 Grand Rapids, Michigan. With Lydia, his seventy-one-year-old night ministry partner, he hangs out with his street people and makes the rounds of the bars. When a go-go dancer at Gus's Getaway vanishes without her life-saving medications, the ministry duo is compelled to try to find her, armed with their reckless nosiness. When a second dancer disappears and Rob is apparently the last to see her, he becomes a prime suspect. Now Rob and Lydia are burdened with the added weight of clearing Rob's name and...