Book 1 of the new mystery series featuring Hope Taylor. Hope Taylor arrives in Apple Springs to start her new life as the first female pastor of Faith Chapel Episcopal Church. The northern California town's quaint cottages, bungalows, and shops…
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Mysteries Featuring Members of the Clergy
You might enjoy some of these mysteries featuring Clergy members--priests, rabbis, ministers, nuns and minister's wives. #IndyPLAdults
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- Book 1 of the Clare Fergisson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series. Clare Fergusson, St Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Millers Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady", she's a tough ex-Army chopper…
A Morbid Taste for Bones
the First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury
Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995Book 1in the Cadfael mystery series. In the 12th-century Benedictine monastery of Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has settled down to a quiet life in charge of the herbarium. It is fortunate his prowess as a herbalist is matched by his detective skills…- Book 1 of the Rabbi Small mystery series.Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner: It seems a young nanny has been found…
- Book 1 of the Sister Fidelma mystery series. Ingram In A.D. 664, when someone murders the Abbess Etain during the synod between the Roman and Celtic churches, Sister Edelma of the Celtic Church and Brother Eadulf of the Roman must find the killer…
- Book 1 in the Faith Fairchild mystery series. During her years spent in New York City. Faith Fairchild was convinced she had seen pretty much everything. But the transplanted caterer/minister's wife was unprepared for the surprises awaiting her in…
- Book 1 in the mystery series featuring Father Tom Christmas. The Reverend Tom "Father" Christmas, the newest vicar of Thornford Regis, an idyllic rural town in England, turns detective when one of his parishioners turns up dead in a drum, and…
- Book 2 in the Father Dowling mystery series. The thoughtful, patient, and wise Father Dowling and Captain Keegan, his friend and associate, play their dangerous parts in a perilous game involving kidnapping for extortion, blackmailing for terror,…
- Book 1 of the Father Brown mystery series. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, 'in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.' You will be enchanted by the…
- The first book in the Doran Fairweather / Rodney Chelmarsh series of mysteries. Doran Fairweather and her husband, ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, hope a separation will put the spice back into their relationship. Instead, in a pre-Tudor house with a…
- Book 2 in the Sister Agatha mystery series. Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the…
- The fifth book in the Sister Mary Helen mystery series. Traveling to the shrine of St. James on a pilgrimage, Sister Mary Helen finds a beautiful woman's body behind the saint's silver casket and suspects a fellow pilgrim, and her suspicions may…
- Book 1 of the Ministry is Murder mystery series featuring minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox. Meet the unconventional Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a minister's wife with her own calling: helping troubled souls in need of justice. When the naked body of a…
- Book 1 of the Divine mystery series featuring Reverend Kathryn Koerney. Life isn't easy for Tom Holder. Middle-aged, appallingly married, and bored out of his wits, Tom is Chief of Police in Harton--an idyllic New Jersey town where, in spite of its…
- Book 1 of the Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan mysteries. The Reverend Monsignor John Blackwood Ryan, the detective/priest investigates a widow's claims that her dead husband's spirit is haunting her and uncovers a possible case of murder.
- Book 5 of the Shaker mystery series featuring Shaker Sister Rose Calahan. The Depression's winter gloom has crept into the summerhouse of the Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts. The dead body of a woman "of dubious reputation" - a lost soul…
- Book 1 of the Wind River Reservation mystery series. A murder mystery set on an Indian reservation in Wyoming. When the tribal chairman is found murdered before an important powwow, alcoholic Father John O'Malley and an Indian attorney looking for…
- Book 1 of the Sister Joan mystery series. Sister Joan is transferred to Cornwall Convent to quietly investigate the death of Sister Sophia and the disappearance of Sister Magdalen. Finding many departures from normal convent routine, Sister Joan…
- Book 1 of the Ohio Amish mystery series featuring Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer. In this story of crime and mystery Gaus depicts a culture that stands outside the norm, but one that is every bit as…
- Book 9 of the Father Robert Koesler series. At a word from critic Ridley Groendal, plays closed overnight. Concert halls went silent. Books gathered dust on bookstore shelves. Thus, many sought revenge. But four were close enough to exact it. The…
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