A Great Day for the Deadly |
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| Author:
| Haddam, Jane |
| Series title: | The Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4804-0579-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | MysteriousPress.com
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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As St. Patrick's Day nears, a retired FBI agent must solve a sinful crime near a small-town convent: "[An] engrossing murder case . . . enjoyable" (Publishers Weekly). Her childhood friends wanted careers, but Brigit Ann Reilly spent her youth looking forward to her wedding--her wedding to God. When she finally gets to don the habit, her new order sends her to Maryville, where a former sister is poised to become Rome's first...
More Description As St. Patrick's Day nears, a retired FBI agent must solve a sinful crime near a small-town convent: "[An] engrossing murder case . . . enjoyable" (Publishers Weekly).
Her childhood friends wanted careers, but Brigit Ann Reilly spent her youth looking forward to her wedding--her wedding to God. When she finally gets to don the habit, her new order sends her to Maryville, where a former sister is poised to become Rome's first Irish-American saint. Brigit has no time to worry about Vatican politics. She's about to become a martyr herself.
Brigit is found dead in the basement of her local library, her corpse swarming with ten poisonous water moccasins. When ex-FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian hears of her death, he is puzzled by two things: Water moccasins are not native to upstate New York, and Brigit died of hemlock poisoning, not the snakes' venom. As Maryville whips itself into a pious frenzy in search of evidence for its hometown hero's sainthood, Demarkian will attempt his own miracle by finding justice for the murdered young nun.