Sister Mary Helen is in luck, depending on how you look at it. She and Sister Eileen are in Ireland to attend the weeklong Oyster Festival in the little village of Ballyclarin. They make their first stop at a central oasis of food and drink called the Monks' Table. Mary Helen overhears a woman saying to the man with her, "I am surprised someone hasn't killed you already." But Eileen assures her that it's only a way of speaking, and Mary Helen is relieved--until...

In Sister Mary Helen's latest venture as an inadvertent detective, the elderly nun must make do without her even more elderly sidekick, Sister Eileen. Eileen has gone back to Ireland to be with her dying sister, so Mary Helen has no one with whom to share her fears when the head of St. Francis College dies suddenly and is replaced by the coldly efficient Sister Patricia. Surely, Mary Helen feels, she will be swept aside as too old in the "clean

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In the grounds of a house where priests are holding a retreat, Sister Mary Helen, the 70-something PI, stumbles on the body of the assistant cook's boyfriend, a former seminarian who was a bit of a radical. Was he a victim of love or religion? By the author of A Novena for Murder.

Sister Mary Helen is puzzled when her friend Erma fails to call. After checking Erma's empty apartment, she begins investigating.

Sister Mary Helen, aged 75, had resisted retirement. She feared she'd find only prayer, peace and a little pinochle. But she had no sooner arrived at Mount St Francis College for Women when she was greeted by an earthquake, a hysterical secretary and a fatally bludgeoned history professor.

Sister Mary Helen and her dear old friend Sister Eileen can't believe their luck when they win a free trip to Santiago, Spain. Surely the contest, held by the nervous owner of a Spanish restaurant where the nuns sometimes dine, must be rigged? Or was there a bit of intervention - divine or otherwise - that secured the two sisters places in a small tour group? Never mind. The sisters are far too excited at the thought of beautiful faraway Spain to...