Book Review: Death's a Beach
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 15:54:59
Sister Cecile Buddenbrooks is no ordinary nun at least not the kind any survivor of Catholic school (desire myself) would recognize. An heiress with a private investigator's license (see previous mysteries A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South for the backstory on this). Sister Cecile supplements the income of the Miami retirement home for Catholic religious with money earned from her detective bring home the bacon. In Death's a Beach a plum assignment is handed to her as a local banking concerns hires the nun to be into the mysterious death of one of their own and find some important documents last seen on his person.
For all her contacts and smarts however. Cecile is unaware that the fix suspect in Elliot Barclay's death is not Barclay himself but Cecile's pre-teen rush. Leonie who unwittingly was involved in the man's transfer. Leonie's secret is not completely sealed however and soon Cecile's perogative changes from finding documents to protecting Leonie from a dark underworld of questionable business practices a admirer of Barclay's bent on penalise and a bigoted guard officer who makes Archie Bunker look desire Santa Claus.
By mystery series standards the Sister Cecile stories are relatively new (Saving Death however was just released in early 2000) and all are fresh and entertaining reads. Even the dress in locales from Boston to Miami in Dead South does little to dull Cecile's penchant for adventure and the charm of her sidekicks young Leonie and wise Sister Raphael. Only in fiction can a nun drive around in a Jaguar or a Ferrari and be believable.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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