Was it suicide or murder in the Paradise Hotel? Why is someone in the Vatican willing to pay for silence?

When a church confessional is bugged, those who seek forgiveness find instead blackmail, extortion, and dark rumors.

Among them is a man with a hidden life who might become pope.

A police detective and his amateur sleuth wife uncover much that is hidden.

But only the reader will know the whole story of how the Vatican came to have its accidental pope.

An Accidental Pope is not so much a ‘Whodunit?’ as a ‘How did it happen?’

Answers can be found in two wooden boxes, one the confessional and the other a coffin in an isolated churchyard.

Secrets, lies, and intrigue lead to unanswered questions as the Catholic church faces one of the greatest scandals in its history.