Sister Mary Helen, still spry at seventy-something, makes a perfectly
innocent mistakeshe arrives at St. Colettes Retreat House a week early.
Unfortunately, so has a convention of San Francisco priests. Mary Helen, accompanied
by her long-suffering old friend Sister Eileen, had hoped for a few tranquil days of
spiritual renewal. Instead she encounters a boisterous group of hard-drinking pastors,
a crotchety cook named Beverly, a hysterical dishwasher, an inexplicably nervous
resident nun. . . and a dead body. Someone has killed a former seminary student and
left his corpse under the glorious mountain pines. The local police dont have a prayer
when it comes to spotting the real culprit. But perhaps a contemplative nunwith a
God-given gift for sleuthingcan see the evil that men do and the telltale clue no
one else divines. . . .

Marguerite Gavin grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. She holds an M.F.A. in acting and a B.F.A. in theater. An actress working in theater and audiobook narration, she is also artistic director of a youth theater program. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and son.