A by the book detective puts his career in jeopardy when he allows an unorthodox priest to punish a recently apprehended serial killer. (23)

A priest -- who is supposed to be celibate -- has 2 daughters???

And it is not in the job definition of a priest to execute revenge on God's behalf. ?Never has been. ?In the bad ol' days of the Dark Ages, the church pronounced sentence on spiritual matters, but it left the execution of the sentence up to temporal authorities.

Also, on the merely mundane level, ?the story sets up the situation for then detective then passes the baton, the action of the plot, to the priest. ?Who is the protagonist here? ?Who owns the plot? Who will carry the baton across the finish line to the FADE OUT: ?

A priest -- who is supposed to be celibate -- has 2 daughters???

And it is not in the job definition of a priest to execute revenge on God's behalf. ?Never has been. ?In the bad ol' days of the Dark Ages, the church pronounced sentence on spiritual matters, but it left the execution of the sentence up to temporal authorities.

Also, on the merely mundane level, ?the story sets up the situation for then detective then passes the baton, the action of the plot, to the priest. ?Who is the protagonist here? ?Who owns the plot? Who will carry the baton across the finish line to the FADE OUT: ?

"...God's law..." - is archaic and makes the MC sound insane and out of touch - very hard to get an audience on his side. Perhaps the priest needs to know that the murderer will kill again and has already selected his target the priests daughter, son, fill the gap stakes person. This way the priest's actions can be excused as he has to kill in order to save many other lives.