Sister Eve and the Blue Nun {Litfuse Review}

 

About the book:

Sister Eve and the Blue Nun (Thomas Nelson, May 2016)

After a murder at the monastery, Sister Eve may need a miracle if she is to prove a dear friend isn’t a cold-blooded killer.

Sister Eve, a motorcycle-riding nun with a natural (or is it supernatural?) gift for solving murders returns to the enclave she once called home and quickly finds herself confronting yet another mysterious death.

Someone has poisoned Dr. Kelly Middlesworth—a researcher on the life and ministry of 17th-century’s revered “Blue Nun”—and a set of irreplaceable historic documents have disappeared before they could even be examined.

When all evidence seems to point to the victim’s brother, Sister Eve sets out to expose the killer and learn the explosive truth those missing manuscripts might contain.

Chasing a killer is dangerous work, and as her two worlds collide, Sister Eve may need some heavenly help simply to survive.

Lynne Hinton is the New York Times bestselling author of Friendship Cake and Pie Town. A native of North Carolina, she received her undergraduate degree from the U.N.C. at Greensboro and her Masters of Divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She also studied at Wake Forest University and the NC School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking. She has served as a chaplain with hospice and as the pastor of Mount Hope United Church of Christ and First Congregational United Church of Christ, both in North Carolina. Lynne is a regular columnist with The Charlotte Observer. She lives with her husband, Bob Branard, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

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My thoughts:

 

This is the third book in this series and it’s quite the series!  A nun who is also a detective.  She’s had family issues, she’s lived a unique life.  And now her life gets even more complicated when she’s trying to decide if she wants to remain a nun or not.

 

Her home has been changed so that the sisters can no longer live there.  Which would make her move further away from her father who she’s been caring for.  It also adds another dimension to her dilemma of whether to stay a nun or not. 

 

While she’s back in her nun environment for a seminar her friend’s (a monk) sister is killed. She’s poisoned the night before she’s going to give a big speech and discovery of ancient papers concerning a nun known as the blue nun who happens to be a favorite of our Sister Eve and the professor who’s killed.  But who killed her?  Can Sister Eve find the real killer before her friend the monk is found guilty for a crime he didn’t commit.  Can she keep herself alive?  And maybe find a love of her own too?

 

Great read!!  Request a copy for your local library and definitely give this one a read.  It’s suspenseful and will keep you guessing while you’re on the edge of your seat!