DescriptionThe police have their procedures, but Sister Mary Helen does a lot with prayer and common sense. In this seventh outing for Sister Mary Helen and her co-conspirator, Sister Eileen, the two nuns take time out from their duties at Mount St. Francis Colleg…
DescriptionIn Sister Mary Helen's latest venture as an inadvertent detective, the elderly nun must make do without her even more elderly sidekick, Sister Eileen. Eileen has gone back to Ireland to be with her dying sister, so Mary Helen has no one with whom to share…
DescriptionSister Mary Helen, still spry at seventy-something, makes a perfectly innocent mistake: she arrives at St. Colette's Retreat House a week early. Unfortunately, so has a convention of San Francisco priests. Mary Helen, accompanied by her long-suffering old friend Sister Eileen, had hoped for a few tranquil days of spiritual renewal. Instead she encounters a boisterous group of hard-drinking pastors, a crotchety cook named Beverly, a hysterical dishwasher, an inexplicably nervous resident nun, and a dead body. Someone has killed a former seminary student and left his corpse under the glorious mountain pines. The local police don't have a prayer when it comes to spotting the real culprit. But perhaps a contemplative nun, with a God-given gift for sleuthing, can see the evil that men do and the telltale clue no one else divines.
DescriptionNew York Times best-selling master J. A. Jance brings back J. P. Beaumont, one of the most enduring and endearing characters in contemporary fiction, in a riveting story about a shocking, long-buried case of murder. After more than 20 years of di…
DescriptionFor the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a…
