Death Goes on Retreat - Hardcover

O'Marie, Carol Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385310471 ISBN 13: 9780385310475

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1995

Synopsis

In the sixth mystery in the series, the feisty nun-turned-sleuth heads to the country for vacation and becomes a suspect in the murder of a priest with a less-than-holy reputation. By the author of Murder Makes a Pilgrimage.

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Poor Sister Mary Helen! After her eventful trip to Spain (Murder Makes a Pilgrimage), the septuagenarian and her cohort, Sister Eileen, find more trouble only 65 miles from their San Francisco college home. Arriving at St. Collette's Retreat House in Santa Cruz a week earlier than scheduled, the two meet the harried administrator, her antagonistic cook and young assistant. They decide to stay for the night and have dinner with the five priests who are beginning their week's retreat. The next morning, as she walks around the grounds, Sister Mary Helen stumbles on the body of a young man who, she learns, was the cook's assistant's boyfriend, a former activist seminarian well known to the other priests. As in past books, the good sister's curiosity nags her into discovering who stabbed the young man to death. She elicits the help of Kate Murphy, her SFPD homicide inspector friend, to find out about the man's mother and befriends local Detective Sergeant Bob Little, who shares information, some of it personal, with her. Sister Mary Helen's gentle insights inform this story about age-old prejudices with a quiet wisdom.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Accidental sleuth Sister Mary Helen literally stumbles across another corpse while attending a religious retreat. When Sister Mary Helen and her bosom companion, Sister Eileen, arrive at St. Colette's Sanctuary, they are dismayed to discover that they are actually an entire week early for their scheduled conference. Undaunted, they join the retreat for diocesan priests already in progress. While taking an early morning stroll, Mary Helen uncovers the lifeless remains of a former seminarian familiar to all of the priests temporarily residing at St. Colette's. Employing her uncanny flair for detection, the energetic old nun resolves to expose the true identity of the murderer before he or she has the opportunity to strike again. Another delightful installment in this breezy and entertaining series of mysteries. Margaret Flanagan

Edition details

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385310471
• ISBN 13: 9780385310475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230