I would've given this book three stars, but the treatment of the child-abuser priest makes that impossible for me. Every sympathetic character pities the child molester and thinks he's been hard done by, judging instead the man who investigated his crimes and put him in prison instead of letting him skate by with a slap on the wrist. If it was only a character or two, I could've written it off as individual characterization; but not when everyone in the novel is treating it like a benign peccadillo and the molester as persecuted and harmless.