Sister Carol Anne O. Marie Bücher

Sister Mary Helen and her long-suffering old friend Sister Eileen have arrived at St. Colette's Retreat House a week earlier. Unfortunately, so have a convention of San Francisco priests. The sisters encounter a boisterous group of hard-drinking pastors, and under the glorious mountain pines--a corpse. The local police don't have a prayer when it comes to clues, but perhaps a contemplative nun--with a gift for sleuthing--can divine the telltale evidence.

Readers have come to delight in the murder-solving exploits of septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen and her cohort Sister Eileen, two nuns with a nose for nabbing killers . Publishers Weekly calls the Sister Mary Helen Mysteries "refreshingly different" and a "heady mix of humor and suspense." Once you meet this spry, clever sleuth, you'll want to make a habit of reading her adventures again and again.Timid little Suzanne Barnes was the perfect ecclesiastical efficient, discreet, self-effacing. So it came as a shock when Suzanne invited Sisters Mary Helen, Eileen and Anne to Ghiradelli Square's Sea Wench Bar to hear her belt out the blues. Sister Mary Helen wondered what secrets lay behind those watery blue eyes. The Sea Wench Suzanne was a sassy, sexy, dressed to kill. It was her first-and last-performance, punctuated by a silver letter opener in the heart. Who killed the canary? Sister Mary Helen and her faithful band must unearth Suzanne's secrets to solve the murder before all hell breaks loose-again...

Spunky Bay Area nun Sister Mary Helen and her sidekick, Sister Eileen, return for an eighth outing, this time investigating the poisoning death of a monsignor.

Sister Mary Helen, a seventy-five-year-old recently retired nun, arrives at San Francisco's Mount St. Francis College for Women and finds herself investigating the murder of a history professor. Reprint.

Vivacious and outgoing, Lisa Springer was the most unlikely member of the free pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the birthplace of Christianity in Spain. And Sister Mary Helen soon had reason to suspect the auburn-haired knockout knew the other members of the tour group--and some of their ugliest secrets--all too well. So when Lisa was discovered strangled to death in a saint's crypt, Sister Mary faced no end of likely suspects-from Lisa's dangerously disaffected "best friend" to the group's charming, unreliable guide to the mild-mannered professor with a relentlessly snobbish wife. And when Sister Mary Helen becomes the target of a number of frightening "accidents," she and Sister Eileen must race to uncover Lisa's past and expose a clever killer hellbent on prematurely sending one sleuthing nun to her heavenly reward.

Sister Mary Helen is sinfully good at snooping through the San Francisco fog. Now a fellow OWL (Older Woman's League) member has disappeared. The police believe Erma Duran simply flew the coop, but Sister feels a Higher Authority pushing her to investigate. A gold medal entangled in Erma's bedsprings and a cryptic clue to a Byzantine madonna deepens the mystery. By the time Police Inspector Kate Murphy joins the hunt, Sister's good intentions have already paved her way straight to the Mission District--and a hellish encounter with sudden death.

When Sister Mary Helen heeds an inner calling, it leads her straight to a killer.It is a rainy Feast of All Souls and feisty Sister Mary Helen, the Bay City’s famous crime-fighting nun, has nothing more on her mind than helping Angelica Bowers, the troubled young woman who works in the library of Mount St. Francis College. Unfortunately, her plans are shattered when dear Gemma Burke, one of her oldest friends, becomes the latest victim of a serial rapist-murderer.Sister Mary Helen realizes that the San Francisco police, despite their furious protests, need a little divine intervention—so she and her sidekick, Sister Eileen, set off after Gemma’s killer. But little do the devout detectives know that they are walking into an intricate web of evil woven by a cold-blooded killer…