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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 usual nun, at lowest not the features any survivor of Catholic school (like myself) would see. An heritor with a insular investigator's licence (see late mysteries A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South for the backstory on this), Sister Cecile supplements the income of the Miami position dwelling for Catholic sacred next to funding earned from her police detective trade. In Death's a Beach, a fruit tree operation is two-handed to her as a regional finance concerns hires the nun to face into the obscure demise of one of their own and locate several significant documents concluding seen on his mortal.

For all her contacts and smarts, however, Cecile is unmindful that the zenith suspicious in Elliot Barclay's passing is not Barclay himself but Cecile's pre-teen charge, Leonie, who inadvertently was mixed up in the man's ending. Leonie's unprofessed is not flattering sealed, however, and in a moment Cecile's privilege changes from finding documents to protective Leonie from a dimness social class of dubitable business organisation practices, a friend of Barclay's rounded on revenge, and a prejudiced force officer who makes Archie Bunker look suchlike Santa Claus.

By puzzle sequence standards, the Sister Cecile stories are comparatively new (Saving Death, however, was newly released in wee 2000), and all are firm and entertaining reads. Even the transfer in locales from Boston to Miami in Dead South does smallish to humdrum Cecile's taste for labor and the talisman of her sidekicks, young Leonie and omniscient Sister Raphael. Only in literary work can a nun device on all sides in a Jaguar or a Ferrari and be believable.