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In Dorchester, Massachusetts, the nuns at the Convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel offer sanctuary to the terrified pregnant daughter of a Boston politician. In Cambridge, a small-time crook is murdered. Low priority trouble for a big city, but the hidden connection between the two events is deadly: blackmail, drugs, and big bucks for those who can stay alive long enough to collect.
At the center of things is Sister Cecile, a private investigator heiress, and Catholic nun, who does God's work in strange and wonderful ways. She heads a east that includes lawyer Paul Dorys, who loves her; Martin Moon, a blueblood who loves nobody; Sister Raphael, who loves everybody; and Lyuba McVey; whose heart belongs equally to booze and her murdered son.
It's a crew that requires Sister Cecile to call upon heaven for more help than usual. Heaven, alas, is in no hurry to give it....
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"The author has been a teacher and analyst for the CIA, and she has a devious mind....The Boston scene, the teenager and the nun, and the dialogue are attractively written."
-- The Boston Globe
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This clunky, though occasionally charming, debut mystery may tickle the fancy of parochial-school graduates. At the Convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Dorchester, Mass., Sister Cecile's PI certificate is posted alongside a reproduction of the Sistine Chapel Madonna. The independently wealthy nun helps pregnant teenager Jane Hersey escape her extortionist boyfriend, Martin Moon, who is in a killing rage because she absconded with the file of information he uses to blackmail prominent people, including Jane's father, a Boston politician who is up for re-election. In Cambridge, meanwhile, a rinky-dink drug dealer operating out of the Department of Public Works sets off a ridiculous chain of events ending in hot-blooded murder. As the bridge between these cases, Sister Cecile's lawyer, Paul Dorys--who repetitively sighs over her, as does she over him--persuades the good nun to help track the killer. In a contrived finale, nearly the entire cast of villians and heroes assembles for a shootout with the police. Sullivan consistently chooses plot convenience over reality: Sister Cecile's vocation is swept aside whenever it might conflict with sleuthing, and she rarely makes it back to the convent in time for vespers.
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0804112134
- ISBN 13 9780804112130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages218
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