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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 6
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Sister Agatha of the Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico has become reknowned-and occasionally infamous- for her crime solving skills. Now she must bring her skills to bear on her most important case yet-her friend and ally Sheriff Tom Green is a suspect in the brutal murder of his rival in the upcoming election.
64) The prodigal nun
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 5
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Dangerous sounding threats arrive at Our Lady of Hope, an aging monastery run by a cloistered order in rural New Mexico. Since Sister Agatha has been involved in her fair share of investigations, there's no lack of people who might harbor a grudge against her. But is she really the target?
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A charming and clever traditional mystery debut set at a bucolic Welsh convent, The Shadow of Death introduces Sister Agatha, a mystery-loving nun who finds herself in the midst of a real-life murder case. The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life—days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent’s vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister...
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"Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president's death? As Yuletide settles upon Gwenafwy Abbey, the rural Welsh convent's peace is shattered when Tiffany Reese, president of the Village Art Society, is found dead on the floor of the parish hall. Sister Agatha, whose interests lie more with reading and writing mystery stories than with...
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Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
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"Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cacao plantation in Valle del Cauca. But on the night of a spectacular gala, he disappears--and is never seen again. Now his hacienda is a budding Catholic hospital saving lives during an emerging epidemic. And novice nun "Sor Puri" is there to uncover the truth behind Martin's disappearance. But her real identity--and her past with the heartbreakingly charismatic...
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The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award. “We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.” Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the...
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Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this small masterpiece of short fiction is a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice. In "Creation," a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can't get off the island-flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In "Human Moments in World War III," two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence...
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"Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'"--Amazon.com.
73) False witness
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 4
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"Situated in rural New Mexico, Our Lady of Hope Monastery squeaks by on donations and various craft and skilled jobs suited to the nuns' cloistered, contemplative life. When a stolen SUV crashes through their outside walls, Our Lady's budget goes through the roof. So it seems like divine intervention when an ailing millionaire asks Sister Agatha--the extern nun whose investigative skills have earned her points in Heaven--to find his long-estranged...
74) Quaker summer
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Heather Curridge has a good life with her family but she still feels unfulfilled. Then she spends a life-changing summer with two Quaker sisters and a nun in a downtown homeless shelter.
76) Charisma
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Away from the convent, a former nun stumbles onto the path of a killer. Susan Murphy is still getting accustomed to blue jeans. For seventeen years, she has worn a nun's habit, and she was used to the coziness of her cape, the anonymity of her uniform. Eventually, she decides it is time to leave the convent, go back to the world, and return to her family. It doesn't take long for her to remember how awful the real world can be. A killer stalks New...
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THE PLAY'S THE THING, TO CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF A KILLER . . .
The Christmas season brings strange guests to the medieval nunnery of St. Frideswide's when a troupe of penniless players comes knocking at the gate. They bear with them the badly mangled body of a villager, swearing they found the drunken fool lying in a ditch. But Meg, the victim's wife and a scullery maid of the cloister, thinks there are far fouler deeds afoot.
As the players rehearse...
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"In 1975, a baby just minutes old is taken from its devastated mother. In 2010, the gruesome corpse of a nun is found in a Dublin public park. Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds and his team are on the scene and he's convinced the murder is linked to historical events that took place in the infamous former Magdalene Laundries, institutions for "fallen women." As Reynolds and his team follow the trail to an isolated convent, everything seems perfectly...
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Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 3
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York, 1385. Just as the Mystery Plays are about to unfold, a young woman witnesses a terrible crime and turns to Abbess Hildegard for protection.
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"When Phineas Fox is asked to help with the music for bicentenary celebrations at Cresacre Abbey School, he does not expect to find fragments of a sinister medieval ritual within a locally-written opera. As Phin follows the threads of the past, he discovers that curious legends about the school's history still linger, including the fate of a group of nuns who disappeared without trace more than 200 years before. What exactily happened to them? And...
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