Galilee

Galilee is an American psychological thriller horror novel written by D.L. Tracey. It was first published by I Universe publishers in December 2009, and then was re-published in 2021 by Author house publishers. The novel's narrative is based on the relationship of its four main characters – the newly ordained young priest, Father Hickey, fresh out of seven very long years of seminary school. Young, overachieving, and ambitious priest is sent to a backwater parish--and to make matters even worse, the priest he will replace dies just before he gets there, throwing him into a strange situation with no guidance.  The small parish The Church of Saint Peter at the edge of a fishing village was not what he hoped for as his first assignment.

 

The young priest meets Michael McDonough, owner of The Crow's Nest bar, while administering last rites to a fisherman on the docks of Galilee on his first day at the parish, and a friendship mentorship begins without the priest’s knowledge. A young waitress at the Crow’s Nest by the name of  Janie befriends the young priest and allows him into her troubled past.

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The fourth person is Father Gilday, the priest who died a few days before the young priest’s arrival.

 

Galilee is a story about the horror that can befall a fishing village when no one is piecing together the signs!