Murder Makes a Pilgrimage
A Sister Mary Helen Mystery
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Vivacious and outgoing, Lisa Springer was the most unlikely member of the free pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the birthplace of Christianity in Spain. And Sister Mary Helen soon had reason to suspect the auburn-haired knockout knew the other members of the tour group--and some of their ugliest secrets--all too well.
So when Lisa was discovered strangled to death in a saint's crypt, Sister Mary faced no end of likely suspects-from Lisa's dangerously disaffected "best friend" to the group's charming, unreliable guide to the mild-mannered professor with a relentlessly snobbish wife. And when Sister Mary Helen becomes the target of a number of frightening "accidents," she and Sister Eileen must race to uncover Lisa's past and expose a clever killer hellbent on prematurely sending one sleuthing nun to her heavenly reward.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
``It's those goddamn old nuns again,'' growls Inspector Dan Gallagher of the San Francisco police when a counterpart in Spain calls for information. In truth, Sister Mary Helen and Sister Eileen of Mount St. Francis College are a somewhat tiresome pair in their fifth case (including A Novena for Murder ), even when they are touring as two of 10 lucky winners of a free pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Actually not all the winners are lucky--one has beeen murdered and another is surely a killer. The nuns use Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as a hook on which to hang their discussion of fellow pilgrims, but the characters are instantly forgettable. Not even colorful descriptions of the Spanish sights and three attacks on Mary Helen can quite redeem this flimsily plotted tale.
