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Anyone read windswept house? I just got it. Small print, and long? Any good?

Yes and there is a “key” to understanding who was who in the book. Also the actual house exists down around Galveston TX.

Read The Final Conclave first about the first conclave (papal election) of 1978 and maybe the second (but written in 1977 and right on target). Windswept House is a novel of Pope Saint John Paul II in disability and beset by enemies in his very last years and a surprising plot as to who verrrrry unexpectedly rises to his defense and that of the Church which that defender had always opposed until he discovered proof of evil in his own ranks. Read them in that order for a full understanding.

Three solid priests (in real life): Fr. Albert Kunz of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, Fr. Charles Fiore of Southern Wisconsin, and Fr. Malachi Martin of Poughkeepsie and NYC were cooperating in investigating higher Midwestern Church officials including bishops for child molesting activities and coverups. During a period of a few months, Fr. Kunz, a tall ex-Marine and strong was murdered by having his throat slashed at his parish campus on a sidewalk at night. He was a Tridentine only priest. Fr. Fiore had degenerative diabetes, was attended in his final illness by my pastor in Illinois. Nonetheless, his death left questions. Fr. Malachi Martin, fell over backwards at a friend's apartment where he was alone in NYC, fractured his skull and never regained consciousness. I did not have the privilege of knowing fr. Kunz but his parishioners started attending our Illinois Church after his death. No one has ever been reported as suspected of the murder.

I wish Malachi Martin were with us to explain the current sorry state of affairs as only he could.