Aimee & David Thurlo
St Martin's, Dec 2004, 23.95, 288 pp.
ISBN 0312290085
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Sister Agatha stops a robbery in progress by punching the felon in the nose. She then rides back to Our Lady of Hope monastery where she will confess to the mother superior that she committed violence against another human being. Before her confession occurs, the archbishop talks to her.
He wants her to go to the retreat, a former monastery where religious folk art belonging to the archdiocese is on display. Someone is stealing some of the artifacts and replacing them with forgeries. The Archbishop wants Sister Agatha to recover the church property and catch the thief. She drives her motorcycle to the retreat with her guard dog Pax sitting in the sidecar. Almost immediately she finds the murdered body of the art professor who was testing two objects to determine their authenticity. While Sister Agatha is there, more objects go missing, the handyman vanishes and Sister Agatha sees the ‘ghost' who is haunting the halls at the inn. Sister Agatha baits a trap and hopes that the killer and thief fall for it.
A convention of mystery writers is staying at the retreat, giving readers, an insiders' look at the world of writing and getting published.
Harriet Klausner
The review of this Book prepared by Harriet Klausner
