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Requiem at the Refuge (Sister Mary Helen, Bk 9)
Requiem at the Refuge - Sister Mary Helen, Bk 9
Author: Carol Anne O'Marie
PBS Market Price: $7.59 or $3.69+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780312938215
ISBN-10: 0312938217
Publication Date: 11/1/2005
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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Readers have come to delight in the murder-solving exploits of septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen, a nun with a nose for trouble. Once you meet this spry, clever sleuth, you'll want to make a habit of reading her adventures again and again.

How do you make God laugh? Tell Him you've got a plan. That's what Sister Mary Helen reminds herself when she sets out to start a new life--as a volunteer in a women's homeless shelter. A savvy septuagenarian with an adventurous streak, Mary Helen is not stranger to the shady side of San Francisco's hilly streets. So when a young resident at the Refuge shelter is found dead, Mary Helen makes it her business to solve the murder. Soon this lady of the Order gets herself into a holy mess involving corrupt local politicians, a prostitution ring, and a tangled web of private eyes, police officers, and the "refugees" themselves. Mary Helen calls upon her beloved sisters at St. Francis College for salvation, but it's going to take a lot of prayers to protect Mary Helen from the dangerous characters---and shocking confessions--that come in her wake......

"Mary Helen twines the strands of these disparate lives with humor and sympathy."
---Publishers Weekly