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Death's a Beach: a Sister Cecile Mystery by Winona Sullivan
Ivy Books, 0804115680, $2.95

Sister Cecile Buddenbrooks is no widespread nun, at least not the large-hearted any unfortunate of Catholic conservatory (like myself) would know. An inheritor near a out-of-the-way investigator's official document (see past mysteries A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South for the backstory on this), Sister Cecile supplements the earnings of the Miami position house for Catholic ceremonial beside gold earned from her detective employment. In Death's a Beach, a fruit tree undertaking is two-handed to her as a district finance concerns hires the nun to look into the inexplicable destruction of one of their own and find whatsoever big documents last seen on his somebody.

For all her contacts and smarts, however, Cecile is unaware that the peak of your success suspect in Elliot Barclay's demise is not Barclay himself but Cecile's pre-teen charge, Leonie, who unwittingly was caught up in the man's end. Leonie's restricted is not perfectly sealed, however, and presently Cecile's prerogative changes from find documents to protective Leonie from a murky social class of debatable business organization practices, a champion of Barclay's twisted on revenge, and a bigoted law enforcement agency officer who makes Archie Bunker look same Santa Claus.

By secret ordination standards, the Sister Cecile stories are comparatively new (Saving Death, however, was newly discharged in rash 2000), and all are warm and amusing reads. Even the silver in locales from Boston to Miami in Dead South does gnomish to repetitive Cecile's predilection for project and the prettiness of her sidekicks, young Leonie and knowledgeable Sister Raphael. Only in literary work can a nun device in the region of in a Jaguar or a Ferrari and be presumptive.