Results for: Religious Mysteries


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A Church Choir Mystery. The county fair is coming soon, and the flower competition is one of the most anticipated events. All the hydrangeas have been stolen, however. Gracie sets off to solve the mystery. Illustrated with line drawings. Pictorial boards. 203 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Cover art by Robert Tanenbaum.
The Missing Hydrangeas
Berger, Eileen M.
Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 2000.
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Sculptor Danny Cray supplements his meager income with a little private investigation on the side. When he's offered some good money to find out who's trashing the reputation of a mysterious billionaire, he jumps at it. Alas, he soon learns that if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. His investigation leads him from Washington, DC, to Rome to Istanbul to Silicon Valley. 378 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2".
The Eighth Day
Case, John
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
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P. D. James has been honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the British Crimewriters Association (the Cartier Golden Dagger), and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar. Death in Holy Orders also won the 2002 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel. In Death in Holy Orders, an Anglican archdeacon who advocated closing a theological college is murdered. Adam Dalgliesh looks into not only the murder, but also his own soul. 419 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Death in Holy Orders
James, P. D.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
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A woman has drowned in Eastport, Massachussets, and Chief of Police Dan Burke enlists the aid of Brother Bartholomew of Faith Abbey. Complicating the investigating is the disappearance of $10 million in diamonds known to have been in the possession of the woman before she died. Signed by author on title page. 314 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8".
A Matter of Diamonds: A Faith Abbey Mystery
Manuel, David
Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2000.
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Think on Death introduces Ziza (rhymes with Liza) Todd, a young Presbyterian minister who starts out researching her dissertation in upstate New York, but then finds herself researching murder, too. Winner of the Westchester Library Association's 1993 Washington Irving Book Selection. 259 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Jacket design and illustration by Yvonne Gensurowsky-Stansbury.
Think on Death
McCullough, David Willis
New York: Viking Press, 1991.
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Kate Hanlon and her minister husband Paul move from San Antonio, Texas, to Copper Mill, Tennessee, to take over the church there. the day they arrive, however, their new church building is burned down the result of apparent arson. Will they be able to help the congregation overcome this setback? A title in the Mystery and the Minister's Wife series. 250 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2".
Through the Fire
Noble, Diane
Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 2007.
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Mavis Bixby disappeared more than a year ago. When Mavis's house in Copper Mill, Tennessee is put on the market, Kate Hanlon, wife of the local minister, becomes concerned. A title in the Mystery and the Minister's Wife series. 247 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2".
Beauty Shop Tales
Pattillo, Beth
Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 2007.
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The author's first novel, which introduces Matthew Shardlake, investigator for the crown. It's 1537. An agent of the King is found murdered, and the King's vicar-general sends lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate. Other deaths follow, and Shardlake himself becomes a target before he uncovers the murderer. 389 pp. 7 3/4" X 5".
Dissolution
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
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The author's first novel, which introduces Matthew Shardlake, investigator for the crown. It's 1537. An agent of the King is found murdered, and the King's vicar-general sends lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate. Other deaths follow, and Shardlake himself becomes a target before he uncovers the murderer. 390 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Paul Buckely.
Dissolution
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and Millers Kill police chief Russ Van Alstyne have more on their minds than a mutual attraction in this follow-up to Spencer-Fleming's "In the Bleak Midwinter." The small upstate New York town is afflicted with gay-bashing, a contaminated water supply, and environmentalists up in arms against a resort development. Winner of the 2004 Barry Award for Best Novel. 320 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein.
A Fountain Filled With Blood
Spencer-Fleming, Julia
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition. Fidelma of Cashel is sister to one of the Kings of Ireland. When she returns to her brother's castle, she learns that her son's nurse has been murdered and her son is missing. Fidelma begins a frantic search to find her son and the people who seized him. 276 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein.
The Leper's Bell
Tremayne, Peter
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006.
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Playing God
Whitehead, Barbara
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
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