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Carol Anne O'Marie
Full Series List in Order
A Sister Mary Helen Mystery
1 - A Novena for Murder (1984)2 - Advent of Dying (Oct-1986)
3 - The Missing Madonna (Nov-1988)
4 - Murder in Ordinary Time (Sep-1991)
5 - Murder Makes a Pilgrimage (Oct-1993)
6 - Death Goes on Retreat (Nov-1995)
7 - Death of an Angel (Dec-1996)
8 - Death Takes Up a Collection (Sep-1998)
9 - Requiem at the Refuge (Feb-2000)
10 - The Corporal Works of Murder (Aug-2002)
11 - Murder at the Monks' Table (Jun-2006)
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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A Novena for Murder
- 1984
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Heaven knows nobody expected a homicide at Mount St. Francis College for Women in San Francisco. Sister Mary Helen, at seventy-five, had resisted retiring there for fear she'd find only prayer, peace, and a little pinochle. But she'd barely arrived w...
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Advent of Dying
- Oct-1986
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A CHURCH SECRETARY RECEIVES THE WAGES OF SIN.. Timid little Suzanne Barnes was the perfect ecclesiastical secretary: efficient, discreet, self-effacing. So it came as a shock when Suzanne invited Sisters Mary Helen, Eileen and Anne to Ghirardelli ...
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The Missing Madonna
- Nov-1988
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Sister Mary Helen is sinfully good at snooping through the San Francisco fog. Now a fellow OWL (Older Women's League) member has disappeared. The police believe Erma Duran simply flew the coop, but Sister feels a Higher Authority pushing her to inves...
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Murder in Ordinary Time
- Sep-1991
- / Amateur Sleuth
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AVENGING ANGEL Just one bite of that irresistible Christmas cookie and Christina Kelly, Channel 5's leading investigative reporter, was on the air -- dead. The odor of bitter almond told Sister Mary Helen the cause of death: cyanide. Somewhere in ...
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Murder Makes a Pilgrimage
- Oct-1993
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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...
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Death Goes on Retreat
- Nov-1995
- / Amateur Sleuth
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NOR 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, ac...
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Death of an Angel
- Dec-1996
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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, t...
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Death Takes Up a Collection
- Sep-1998
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A corrupt clergyman meets an unholy death... Monsignor Joseph Higgins liked, along with wine and women, the finer things in life--so much so that he may have dipped into the church funds to finance his good tastes. But would that be reason enough ...
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Requiem at the Refuge
- Feb-2000
- / Amateur Sleuth
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DIVINE INTERVENTION How do you make God laugh? Tell Him you've got a plan. That's what Sister Mary Helen reminds herself when she sets out to start a new life-as a volunteer in a women's homeless shelter. A savvy octogenarian with an adventurous s...
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The Corporal Works of Murder
- Aug-2002
- / Amateur Sleuth
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"...BURY THE DEAD." On the feast of St. Francis Caracciolo, Sister Mary Helen finished chanting the Corporal Works of Mercy-- "...to feed and shelter the homeless, visit the sick, and bury the dead" --before she went to work at the Refuge, a San F...
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Murder at the Monks' Table
- Jun-2006
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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 weeklong Oyster Festival in the little village of Ballyclarin. They make their first stop at a central oasis o...