Synopses & Reviews
Readers have come to delight in the murder-solving exploits of septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen, a nun with a nose for trouble. Publishers Weekly calls the Sister Mary Helen Mysteries "refreshingly different". Once you meet this spry, clever sleuth, you'll want to make a habit of reading her adventures again and again.
The Good Thief
Sister Mary Helen isn't ready for retirement. Instead she's arrived at a San Francisco women's college to teach history and perhaps shake things up. An earthquake does that before she can, and amid the rubble lies a body. An "Act of God" is not responsible for the death, but rather murder. One of Sister Helen's fellow nuns begins a novena to St. Dismas, "the Good Thief" predicting the saint will reveal the murderer within nine days. Sure enough the police soon nab a suspect...but Sister Mary Helen believes it's the wrong man and begins her own pursuit of the killer. Her motive is justice...and her inspiration, simply divine.
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"Sister Carol writes with sure knowledge, a deft touch." -Houston Post
"Hair-raising...A fast-reading story. [The] characters are delightfully real....This is one you won't want to put down." -West Coast Review of Books
Review
Praise For The Sister Mary Helen Mystery Series:"An unfailingly cozy mystery series." -Library Journal
"Father Brown move over!...Tough and compassionate, [Sister Mary Helen] understands the secrets of the human heart." -Andrew M. Greeley
"O'Marie twines the strands of these disparate lives with humor and sympathy." -Publishers Weekly on Requiem at the Refuge
"Another first-rate installment in an unfailingly entertaining series." -Booklist on Requiem at the Refuge
"Enlivened by its series of incisive character studies-and sure to please the Sister's legion of fans."-Kirkus Reviews on Death Takes Up a Collection
"O'Marie delivers compelling characters and sophisticated plotting in her best effort to date."
-Publishers Weekly on Death of an Angel
"[An] excellent mystery series...hard to put down."-Booklist on Death of an Angel
"The author's handy mix of humor and suspense again proves irresistible." --Publishers Weekly on The Missing Madonna
About the Author
Sister Carol Anne O'Marie has been a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for the past fifty years. She ministers to homeless women at a daytime drop-in center in downtown Oakland, California, which she co-founded in 1990. She has written ten novels featuring Sister Mary Helen.