Requiem at the Refuge (A Sister Mary Helen Mystery) - Softcover

When a young female client at a drop-in center for abused women is found murdered, septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen investigates to find a killer, tangling with corrupt politicians, a prostitution ring, cops, and other refugees along the way. By the author of The Missing Madonna. Reprint.

DIVINE INTERVENTION

How do you make God laugh? Tell Him you've got a plan. That's what Sister Mary Helen reminds herself when she sets out to start a new life--as a volunteer in a women's homeless shelter. A savvy octogenarian with an adventurous streak, Mary Helen is no stranger to the shady side of San Francisco's hilly streets. So when a young resident at the Refuge shelter is found dead, Mary Helen makes it her business to solve the murder. Soon this lady of the Order gets herself into a holy mess involving corrupt local politicians, a prostitution ring, and a tangled web of private-eyes, police officers, and the 'refugees' themselves. Mary Helen calls upon her beloved sisters at St. Francis College for salvation, but it's going to take a lot of prayers to protect Mary Helen from the dangerous characters--and shocking confessions--that come in her wake...

"O'Marie twines the strands of these disparate lives with humor and sympathy."--Publishers Weekly