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1) Devious
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When her sister, a novice nun named Sister Camille, is found brutally murdered at St. Marguerite's Cathedral in New Orleans, Valerie Houston, convinced that the police aren't doing enough, investigates and discovers that a depraved killer is determined to purge St. Marguerite's of all its sins.
Author
Series
A Zofia Turbotynska mystery volume 1
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 349 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cracow, 1893. Zofia Turbotynska--professor's wife and socialite--is bored at home, with little to do but plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crimes. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone but her loyal...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
515 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sent away from his native Australia to Canada due to his radical preaching against the Vietnam War, apartheid, and other hot button issues, Father Frank Docherty made for himself a satisfying career as a psychologist and monk. When he returns to Australia to lecture on the future of celibacy and the Catholic Church, he is unwittingly pulled into the lives of two people, a young man, via his suicide note, and an ex-nun, both of whom claim to have been...