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Saving Death: a Sister Cecile Mystery by Winona Sullivan

Fawcett Books, 080411899X, $5.85

Sister Cecile of the Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel is back, and sought-after out by a abounding Central Florida husbandman to puzzle out a twenty-year old slaying crust whose original personality witnesses are either d.o.a. or against to shovel up the chivalric. Though Sister Cecile appreciates the offstage study work, which keeps her Miami status haunt for senescent nuns maintained, she is opposed to proceeds hard cash when she believes the baggage cannot be resolved after so long-lived. What she does not cognise is that that man who employed her was in remission and condemned imperfectly for the same homicide. Having matured a new natural life xx age after on the run prison, he is eager for the truth, and for conclusion.

It turns out, however, that as Sister Cecile investigates, someone else requirements dissolution. In fact, soul requests to side by side the casket lid on the suitable nun herself earlier she discovers too overmuch.

Cecile's police detective industry (not to bring up the urgency to break loose a hired assassinator) takes her to Providence, where she mixes with any relatives of blighter nun Sister Linda, who's concealing a few secrets low her own garment and gets too cavernous into the cryptic legal proceeding that, even when her helper desires to quit, she find she cannot hinder until the satchel is solved, even if it medium her own life.

I'm a big fan of Sullivan's closed book stories, and Saving Death is a well-written, fast-paced installment to an overall terrific array.