Sister O'Marie Carol Anne (3)

«Он принимал душ, когда дверь тихонько хлопнула и сквозняком дернуло по занавеске.

Дети пришли, решил он, намыливая волосы.

Что-то рановато, обычно их с горы не вытащишь. Предполагалось, что они скатятся еще пару раз, а потом все вместе двинут на ужин…»

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

Sister Mary Helen is sinfully good at snooping through the San Francisco fog. Now a fellow OWL (Older Woman's League) member has disappeared. The police believe Erma Duran simply flew the coop, but Sister feels a Higher Authority pushing her to investigate. A gold medal entangled in Erma's bedsprings and a cryptic clue to a Byzantine madonna deepens the mystery. By the time Police Inspector Kate Murphy joins the hunt, Sister's good intentions have already paved her way straight to the Mission District-and a hellish encounter with sudden death.