Enjoy this Contemporary Small Town Sleuthing Couple Murder Mystery Who is trying to eliminate their competition for the title of Miss Myer County? The Poisoned Pageant is the twenty-sixth 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.