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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once she was Professor Mary Naughton, investigative reporter, teacher, and free spirit. Now she is Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope, a cloistered, financially-struggling monastery in New Mexico. As an extern-a nun who handles her order's dealings with the outside world-she is used to having her faith and newly-acquired patience tested. But when popular chaplain Father Anselm is poisoned to death in the middle of Mass, Sister Agatha has to bring all...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former investigative reporter, Sister Agatha has more than her fair share of spiritual challenges as an extern, a nun responsible for her cloistered orderś dealings with the outside world. Still, sheś instantly intrigued when the archbishop requests she discreetly investigate the odd disappearances of valuable religious folk art from The Retreat, a former New Mexico monastery-turned-upscale-inn. But soon Sister Agatha is entangled in one unearthly...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agatha is an extern-authorized to interact with the outside world-for Our Lady of Hope Monastery, a small community on the cusp of financial ruin. When a drunk driver crashes his SUV into its security gate, the nuns must scramble to find the funds for repairs. Meanwhile, a hacker is disrupting the computer work the community relies upon for much of its income, and the adjacent vineyard may be sold to a developer. Salvation seems at hand when dying...
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mystery volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As an extern, Sister Agatha is the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. Usually this means running errands in the monasteryś slowly dying automobile (dubbed the Anti-Chrystler) or their motorcycle with Pax, the orderś German Shepard, in the side car. Sometimes her duties involve a bit more--like when...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our Lady of Hope is an aging monastery run by a cloistered order in rural New Mexico. Perennially cash-strapped for needed repairs and maintenance, when the local diocese offers to pay for a new water well it is, well, a godsend. But there's a catch -- in return, they want the monastery to house a novice nun from a different order who needs a place to stay locally while she teaches at the Catholic school and an order to take responsibility for her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renowned and reviled for her crime-solving prowess, Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico, finds her skills tested by a case in which her friend and ally, Sheriff Tom Green, is accused in the brutal murder of a political rival.
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