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Utah author Mette Ivie Harrison talks about leaving the Latter-day Saint faith and her fictional sleuth’s religious journey

She digs into church patriarchy, homelessness and sexual assault in “The Prodigal Daughter,” out May 25.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mette Ivie Harrison, Utah novelist - whose latest mystery novel, "The Prodigal Daughter," takes her Salt Lake City bishop's wife detective, Linda Wallheim, on the case of a missing teen, while she also confronts the cracks in her Latter-day Saint faith and her marriage. Pictured at Fast Break across the street from Pioneer Park on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, is the location of one of the scene’s in her novel.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mette Ivie Harrison, Utah novelist - whose latest mystery novel, "The Prodigal Daughter," takes her Salt Lake City bishop's wife detective, Linda Wallheim, on the case of a missing teen, while she also confronts the cracks in her Latter-day Saint faith and her marriage. Pictured at Fast Break across the street from Pioneer Park on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, is the location of one of the scene’s in her novel.

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