Divine Ruin
A Sister Holiday Mystery
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 from CrimeReads
In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a “hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred.” (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines)
“Divine Ruin is fearlessly inspired.” (Gillian Flynn)
It’s a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is finishing her music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in her journey of faith. But when one of her favorite students is found dead of a fentanyl overdose, Sister Holiday and her partner-in-PI, Magnolia Riveaux, are determined to track down the drug dealers. As students continue to fall prey tothis sinister drug, Sister Holiday becomes more desperate to stop the epidemic—while facing her own past with addiction, a demon that is never too far.
With Douaihy’s signature mix of grit, heart, and faith, Divine Ruin tests the limits of Sister Holiday’s devotion in her darkest and most shocking case yet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Douaihy delivers a crackling third installment of her series featuring tattooed queer New Orleans nun Holiday Walsh (after Blessed Water). As Holiday prepares to take her final vows while trying to keep her music classes running smoothly at Saint Sebastian's School, the academy is shaken by the death of one of its star students from an apparent fentanyl overdose. Distressed and desperate for answers, Holiday launches her own inquiry into the school's students and teachers with the help of her PI friend Magnolia Riveaux, and agrees to assist the police investigation by going undercover into the drug-fueled nightlife scene she used to haunt. Holiday remains a messy yet lovable heroine whose rough edges belie her unflagging moral compass, and Douaihy traps her in a series of pulse-pounding scenarios. When Holiday's faith and strength of character carry her through, it feels fully earned rather than trite or expected. Though Douaihy brilliantly ties up this entry's loose ends, there's more than enough juice left in the setting and characters to fuel Sister Holiday's future adventures.
