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Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery
A New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024 Winner of Publishing Triangle's Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove in this fast-paced, blistering follow-up to Scorched Grace. "Sister Holiday is simply a joy of a narrator--and definitely my kind of character: flawed, dark, buoyant, and often laugh-out-loud funny." --Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she's committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux's latest venture, Redemption Detective Agency--both in service of satisfying her eternal quest for answers. When Sister Holiday and Riveaux set out to bust a philandering husband, they instead find the body of a priest floating in the swollen Mississippi river, and with it, Redemption's next case. It's significantly more gruesome than their original mission, but Sister Holiday feels called on by God to hunt down the murderer and keep her community safe. As a torrential rainstorm drowns New Orleans for three harrowing days over Easter weekend, Sister Holiday and Riveaux follow the clues. With the stakes rising alongside the relentless floodwaters, our favorite punk nun-sleuth throws herself into the deep end yet again. A lacerating and lyrical plunge into obsession, deception, and the questions that hold us captive, Blessed Water is a lights-out mystery that will leave you breathless.
Book Details
- Publisher: Gillian Flynn Books
- Publish Date: Mar 12nd, 2024
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.00in - 1.10in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9781638930266
- Categories: • Thrillers - Crime• Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled• Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
About the Author
Douaihy, Margot: - Margot Douaihy lives in Northampton, MA, and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. She is the author of the award-winning, nationally bestselling Sister Holiday series, in addition to the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. Her debut mystery, Scorched Grace, won The Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction and was named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times, The Guardian, and others.
Praise for this book
Praise for Blessed Water
"Returning to New Orleans with my favorite punk-rock nun is such a thrill. Sister Holiday is the best kind of detective: unafraid of the darkest parts of human nature, and yet constantly seeking the best in others. Douaihy blends edgy counterculture with sincere faith, violence and nihilism with genuine yearning for human connection, and grit with hope, all in one hell of a mystery." --Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books "Water weeps from the clouds, streaks the faces of the grieving, and revives a fragile faith. The writing in Blessed Water is utterly delightful. By the time the flood receded, and the case was solved, I'd already begun yearning for the next Sister Holiday Mystery." --Cheryl A. Head, author of Time's Undoing and the Anthony-nominated Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series "Margot Douaihy follows up an extraordinary debut with an even more exceptional sophomore novel! She combines a poet's soul and an artist's eye with a powerful and strong authorial voice to create layered, complex characters involved in a story so well paced you cannot put it down. I am already hungry for her next book!" --Greg Herren, Lambda Award-winning author of Death Drop and the Scotty Bradley Mysteries "My favorite PI series transport you to a setting unlike any other and feature unforgettable, flawed, and diverse characters in central roles. Margot Douaihy's latest, Blessed Water, is all these things and more, bringing readers deeper into Sister Holiday's complicated world with confidence and lyricism. A potent blend of dark noir and the travails of a tainted knight detective, Blessed Water is a one-way ticket to a New Orleans you could only imagine. A poised and unique novel." --Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity Praise for Scorched Grace "Sister Holiday, the protagonist of Margot Douaihy's showstopper of a series debut Scorched Grace isn't what you'd imagine a nun to be like, even in laissez-faire New Orleans." --Sarah Weinman, New York Times "Vibrant, crackling and deliciously insubordinate, it's a mystery full of trapdoors and surprises but with a keen emotional force that leaves you shaken, hooked." --Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of The Turnout "Margot Douaihy's bold entry into the hard-boiled genre revitalizes it for our times. [...] one of the best crime fiction debuts I've come across in a long while." --Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Power of the Dog and City on Fire