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by Sister Carol Anne O’Marie Sister Mary Helen has held out as long as possible, but at last she has given in, at the age of seventy-five. Her new vocation, in a life devoted to teaching, is to take up her historical studies at Mount St Francis College For Women and do some research, but before she has barely settled in, there is a murder. Professor Villanueva has been found dead on the floor of his office, and it looks as though the murder weapon is a statue of Dom Sebastiao. As both the Professor and the late Dom shared a reputation for being saviours of the Portuguese people, who would have wanted to kill him? It is up to Sister Mary Helen to assist the police with their enquiries and stop the wrong person from being arrested. It is so interesting to read this book from the point of view of twenty-two years later! The case is assigned to detectives Dennis Gallagher and Kate Murphy, with her being mentioned as the department’s "token female". Dennis does his best to convince her to let her live-in boyfriend make an honest woman of her, and there is a feeling of being on the edge of the modern era, but with one foot in the past. Sister Mary Helen is a Miss Marple-like character who makes good use of being a nun (albeit in secular dress) and manages to inveigle her way into all kinds of places and be first to solve the clues. This makes for an engaging and cozy tale that is now available to a UK audience for the first time. |
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A Novena For Murder