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Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. An Anglo-Saxon delegation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules that have been handed down from Rome. The Abbot of Imleach leads the Irish delegation, which is hostile to the new rules from outsiders. Among the Anglo-Saxon group is Brother Eadulf's own younger brother Egric, whom Eadulf hasn't seen for many years. When the debate quickly becomes acrimonious, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRETremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. It is the beginning of the summer season and the Kingdom of Muman is preparing to celebrate the Great Fair of Cashel. It is an extravagant nine days of contests, food, and endless entertainment. Circumstances have led Fidelma and Eadulf far and wide across the kingdom, and they have been absent from the Great Fair for many years. But, for once they haven't been called away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRECarlson, David
Summary: A teenage girl has vanished in Santa Fe. Nearby, in the Trappist monastery of St. Mary of the Snows, a beautiful young nun is stabbed to death. Father Nicholas Fortis is on sabbatical at St. Mary's, and when Lieutenant Christopher Worthy of the Detroit Police Department is flown in to help find the missing teenager, the Orthodox monk asks his friend to delve into the nun's murder as well. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffeetown Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARJackson, Lisa.
Summary: When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. For Montoya, the brutal crime scene is disturbingly familiar: his aunt, also a nun, was murdered. And the connections don't end there. More nuns are dying, brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACClark, Cassandra
Summary: "Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Still unsure whether she'll rejoin the Order, the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. While walking about its grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAWillan, Jane
Summary: The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life--days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the Abbey's sexton is found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILClare, Alys.
Summary: Lassair awakes in the morning in 1092 with the feeling that something in the spirit world is trying to reach her. When Lassair learns that a nun has been murdered at the same nunnery where her sister lives, Lassair sets out to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Cassandra.
Summary: York, 1385. Just as the Mystery Plays are about to unfold, a young woman witnesses a terrible crime and turns to Abbess Hildegard for protection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Cassandra.
Summary: In the midst of a long, bleak winter in the year 1383, a brave and brilliant nun embarks on a quest for a precious relic. She will need remarkable skills to survive because there are many who want her mission to fail--and one, above all, who plans a deadly revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLAHarrison, Cora
Summary: Cork, Ireland, 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel, she immediately sends for one of her former pupils, Police Sergeant Patrick Cashman, to investigate. Dead bodies ar not unusual in the poverty-stricken slums of Cork, but this one is dressed in evening finery; in her handbag is a dance program for the exclusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARTremayne, Peter.
Summary: When her brother the king barely survives an assassination attempt, Fidelma, her companion Eadulf, and bodyguard Gormán journey into dangerous enemy territory to discover who is behind the plot and why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREAlfieri, Annamaria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALFClark, Cassandra.
Summary: York archbishop Alexander Neville taps Abbess Hildegarde to accompany him on a trip to London, where she's to serve as his spy. Before they set out, Neville's saucier is found dead in a wine vat, evidently murdered. Set in 14th century England during the turbulent reign of Richard II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAJackson, Lisa.
Summary: When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, detectives Bentz and Montoy are called in. The deeper the investigation goes, the eerier it gets. More nuns are being brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets. Though Bentz is sure Father Frank is their man, there are other suspects, including a killer thought to be dead....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M JACTremayne, Peter.
Summary: Investigating the murder of an eminent scholar who was robbed of mysterious manuscripts, Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf, are quickly targeted by the same killer in a case that is complicated by divisive personal problems. By the author of The Council of the Cursed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREHinton, J. Lynne.
Summary: "Sister Eve always says God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery, especially a murder. A member of the Benedictine Order in Pecos, New Mexico, Sister Evangeline has been feeling disconnected and a bit uncertain about her calling. She'snot thrilled when she must return home to Madrid, New Mexico, to care for her testy, ailing father, but she's also invigorated to take on some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HINThurlo, Aimée.
Summary: Renowned and reviled for her crime-solving prowess, Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope Monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico, finds her skills tested by a case in which her friend and ally, Sheriff Tom Green, is accused in the brutal murder of a political rival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUClark, Cassandra.
Summary: In the midst of a long, bleak, dark winter in the year 1383, rain began falling before Martinmas, sweeping through France, Flanders, and Tuscany, and barely ceased all year. Flooding brought famine. Famine brought disease. The Black Death bestowed its grace on town after town. Paris shut its gates; Cologne and Florence followed suit. In the crowded streets within the city walls, the chanting of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAThurlo, Aimée.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Thurlo 2004Bruen, Ken
Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRUGerritsen, Tess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GERJones, Darynda.
Summary: "Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONPatterson, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009