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Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery Audiobook
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Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn). When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials' response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil the mysterious attacker herself and return her home and sanctuary to its former peace. Her investigation leads down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets in the sticky, oppressive New Orleans heat, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way. Sister Holiday is more faithful than most, but she's no saint. To piece together the clues of this high-stakes mystery, she must first reckon with the sins of her checkered past-and neither task will be easy. An exciting start to Margot Douaihy’s bold series for Gillian Flynn Books that breathes new life into the hard-boiled genre, Scorched Grace is a fast-paced and punchy whodunnit that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
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“Stunning…This cursing, chain-smoking queer nun who wears gloves and a heavy scarf to hide her tattoos is unlike any nun encountered on the page or in real life.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“A whodunnit with an unforgettable mystery solver…a headstrong, thoroughly-tattooed chain smoker.”
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“An instantly memorable character—edgy, headstrong, hardboiled, deeply flawed, darkly funny, with a voice that crackles and burns with passion and wit.”
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“If you’re not sold by a punk rock nun solving mysteries then can your soul even be saved?”
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“A unique and emotional novel, set against the backdrop of New Orleans in all its sticky, sweaty heat and unrelenting beauty and charm.”
— Mystery & Suspense Magazine
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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An Apple Books Pick of the Month
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About Margot Douaihy
Margot Douaihy is the author of one novel and several poetry collections. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and an active member of Sisters in Crime and the Radius of Arab American Writers. She has received the Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award, and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation’s Hemingway Shorts. Her writing has been featured in Queer Life, Queer Love; Colorado Review; Florida Review; PBS NewsHour; and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire, where she also serves as the editor of the Northern New England Review. She is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, now living in Northampton, MA. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom.
About Mara Wilson
Neil Hellegers grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in theater arts and a minor in psychology before getting an MFA in acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2003 and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theater education, and audiobook narration. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.