Dorothy Cummings McLean

Missing, Presumed Lost

Fiction

“More than a whodunit, this mystery is a meditation on what it means to belong and yet not belong, to be an outsider in the place you call your home. By exposing the bitter class hatreds and sectarian resentments of the 1940s, Fiorella De Maria rips the 'cozy' label from the vintage village crime. The sufferings of kind-hearted Father Gabriel remind us that every murder story is a horror tale, and never a jolly spree to enliven a weekend in the country.”

See No Evil

Fiction

“In See No Evil De Maria takes on the country house murder mystery and imbues it with moral seriousness. Neither the author nor her hero Father Gabriel are willing to ignore the privations and the social inequalities of 1940s England to revel in the glamour of the privileged.”

The Accidental Marriage

Fiction

“A bold critique of modern challenges to the American family and a morality tale about the complementarity of the sexes. It's a defense of fatherhood, especially, but also of motherhood and homemaking as honorable occupations.”