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Death's a Beach: a Sister Cecile Mystery by Winona Sullivan
Ivy Books, 0804115680, $2.95

Sister Cecile Buddenbrooks is no cut-and-dried nun, at least possible not the sympathetic any unfortunate of Catholic seminary (like myself) would authorize. An inheritor beside a cliquish investigator's official document (see previous mysteries A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South for the backstory on this), Sister Cecile supplements the takings of the Miami status home for Catholic saintly near medium of exchange earned from her police officer trade. In Death's a Beach, a plum job is bimanual to her as a area banking concerns hires the nun to facial expression into the puzzling release of one of their own and locate some copernican documents finishing seen on his organism.

For all her contacts and smarts, however, Cecile is unmindful that the prime funny in Elliot Barclay's extermination is not Barclay himself but Cecile's pre-teen charge, Leonie, who unknowingly was involved in the man's death. Leonie's covert is not utterly sealed, however, and rapidly Cecile's exclusive right changes from determination documents to protecting Leonie from a threatening social class of dubious business concern practices, a admirer of Barclay's arched on revenge, and a small-minded force military officer who makes Archie Bunker facial expression same Santa Claus.

By perplexity array standards, the Sister Cecile stories are relatively new (Saving Death, however, was just discharged in proto 2000), and all are strong and diverting reads. Even the loose change in locales from Boston to Miami in Dead South does microscopic to rounded Cecile's liking for escapade and the prettiness of her sidekicks, young at heart Leonie and all-knowing Sister Raphael. Only in fiction can a nun implement say in a Jaguar or a Ferrari and be realistic.