Devious (A Bentz/Montoya Novel) - Hardcover

Jackson, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0758225652 ISBN 13: 9780758225658

Publisher: Kensington, 2011

Synopsis

The crime scene at St. Marguerite€™s cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Valerie Houston is devastated by her sister€™s death. For weeks, she€™d begged Camille to leave St. Marguerite€™s, where she seemed determined to live as some kind of martyr. But Camille had a knack for making bad choices €” she joined the convent in part because she€™d fallen for Val€™s soon-to-be ex-husband, Slade. Convinced the police aren€™t doing enough, Val begins to investigate. Slade, on a mission to repair their marriage, is determined to help her. But the deeper Val€™s inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes. St. Marguerite€™s is far from the tranquil retreat many believe, and everyone, from handsome Father Frank O€™Toole to the mysterious Mother

About this title

About the Author:

Lisa Jackson has been writing romantic fiction for fifteen years. Oversixty of her books have been published and reprinted in more than adozen foreign languages. A single mother, she is a native of Oregon,where she still resides with her two teenage sons.Lisa is often asked what is the key to her success, and her unfailinganswer is a keen imagination, incredible friends, loving family, andalways, loads of laughter. As Oscar Wilde is purported to have said,"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

From Publishers Weekly:

Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson's terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite's Convent, Montoya recognizes the murder victim, Sister Camille, as his old high school girlfriend, Cammie Renard. In another coincidence, the novice sister who discovered Camille's body, Lucia Costa, once dated Montoya's brother. On top of that, one of the prime suspects is a high school classmate of Montoya's, Fr. Francis O'Toole, who may have had an affair with the victim. As Cammie's sister, Valerie, a former Texas cop now a New Orleans Garden District B&B owner, struggles with a surprise visit from her estranged husband, more nuns succumb to a crazed killer. Val learns more than she bargained for about her past—and Cammie's—at a nearby orphanage in a creepy thriller sure to please Jackson's many fans. (Apr.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0758225652
• ISBN 13: 9780758225658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432