Death Goes on Retreat

NOR REST FOR THE WICKED

Sister Mary Helen, still spry at seventy-something, made a perfectly innocent mistake--she had arrived at St. Colette's Retreat House a week early. Unfortunately, so had a convention of San Francisco priests. Mary Helen, accompanied by her longsuffering old friend Sister Eileen, had hoped for a few tranquil days of spiritual renewal. Instead she encountered 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 had killed a former seminary student and left his corpse under the glorious mountain pines. The local police didn't have a prayer when it came to spotting the real culprit. But perhaps a contemplative nun--with a God-given gift for sleuthing--could see the evil that men do and the telltale clue no one else divined....