Detective plot
Detective Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, now investigates murder cases for the Miami Police Department. He is summoned to take a confession from Elroy Doil. This convicted serial killer, who was arrested by Ainslie herself, will be executed the next morning. Doil is suspected of a string of murders, but has only been convicted of one. He wants to clean up and tell everything he knows. Ainslie cannot resist this offer, because the murders committed four years earlier just won't let him go. The victims are elderly and have been brutally murdered. The murderer claims to be an avenging angel of God himself. But Doil's motives are even darker and downright bewildering, as he appears to be heavily scarred by life. The full story of the crimes that Doil promised to reveal to Ainslie is equally murky and baffling. Both men end up on a winding path that takes them back to their own past. They begin to doubt what they think they know about each other, about crime and punishment, and about truth and justice.
