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No rest for the wicked Sister Mary Helen, still spry at seventy-something, made a perfectly innocent mistake--she had arrived at St. Colette's Retreat House a week early. Unfortunately, so had a convention of San Francisco priests. Mary Helen, accompanied by her long-suffering old friend Sister Eil... More

A blessing in disguise. Sister Mary Helen is in luck, depending on how you look at it. She and Sister Eileen are in Ireland to attend the week-long Oyster Festival in the little village of Ballyclarin. They make their first stop at a central oasis of food and drink called the Monks' Table, where Ma... More

Sister Mary Hellen has agreed to be interviewed on live TV local news. The popular anchorwoman conducting her interview dies on the set. The nun once again finds herself involved in the investigation of the crime.... More

Sister Mary Helen finds herself solving 3 murders which have a common link.... More

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 m... More

Sister Mary Helen isn't ready for retirement. Instead she's arrived at a San Francisco women's college to teach history and perhaps shake things up. An earthquake does that before she can, and amid the rubble lies a body. An "Act of God" is not responsible for the death, but rather murder. One of S... More

In her 70s, Mary Helen is supposedly retired at Mount St. Mary College. When her timid secretary Suzanne Barnes is murdered, however, the grieving nun determines to see justice done. Her friends in the police have no leads; very little is known about the victim, who had appeared out of nowhere, see... More

When the OWLS, including Sisters Mary Helen and Eileen, return from their convention, their friend Erma Duran goes missing. Did she move away without letting anyone know, as suggested by her friend, landlord and boss, Al Finn? Or has something more sinister happened? And where do her children fit i... More

KILLING AT THE CRYPT "Those damn old nuns again," grumbled San Francisco Police Commissioner Gallagher when he received a call with some astounding news. Sister Mary Helen and her friend Eileen, having won a rigged contest, had joined a ten-person tour to the shrine of St. lames in Santiago, Spain.... More