Book excerpt: Enjoy this Contemporary Small Town Sleuthing Couple Murder Mystery Father Tom and Helen get to play Mulder and Scully when a legendary Bigfoot-type creature appears to be behind attempts to sabotage the construction of a new subdivision outside of Myerton. When the project foreman is murdered, Helen has to squelch rumors while looking for a very human killer. The Mountain Monster is the seventeenth novel in The Mercy and Justice Mysteries, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to The Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.