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Overview

Once she was Professor Mary Naughton, investigative reporter, teacher, and free spirit. Now she is Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope, a cloistered, financially-struggling monastery in New Mexico. As an extern-a nun who handles her order's dealings with the outside world-she is used to having her faith and newly-acquired patience tested. But when popular chaplain Father Anselm is poisoned to death in the middle of Mass, Sister Agatha has to bring all her worldly skepticism and savvy instincts to uncover the truth before scandal and unjust suspicion destroy Our Lady of Hope's future. She's up against a hostile local sheriff, an ex-lover who's never forgiven her for 'abandoning' their life together. She's got no shortage of suspects-with-secrets outside-and inside-the monastery. And she'll have to race the clock to stop one remorseless murderer before there's more hell to pay...

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In Bad Faith, the authors of the critically acclaimed Ella Clah series introduce mystery fans to another strong and fascinating woman protagonist. Sister Agatha is an extern nun in a small cloistered order in the New Mexico desert. When a priest's murder disrupts the peaceful life of prayer in her quiet community, this Harley-riding former journalism professor adds the pursuit of justice to her daily devotions. Protecting her sisters from the worldly troubles of both the official investigation and the disturbing possibility of a murderer in their midst leads Sister Agatha along dangerous paths…to revelations that could destroy her beloved order. Sue Stone
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Have you ever wondered what life in a convent would be like? Welcome to New Mexico's Our Lady of Hope Monastery, home to a small community of cloistered nuns in this beguiling new series opener by the authors of the popular Ella Clah series (Changing Woman, etc.). Sister Agatha is one of the extern sisters, the convent's link to the outside world. She is also the novice mistress, responsible for the spiritual formation of two young women who aspire to the convent's religious life, which revolves around the celebration of Mass and the singing in chapel of the divine office every three hours, day and night. The sisters' peaceful routine is shattered when, at the most solemn moment of the Mass, their chaplain, Father Anselm, drops dead. Summoned with the ambulance, the local sheriff, whom Sister Agatha dated in her pre-convent days, confirms that the priest was poisoned, and the entire cloister is suspect. A former investigative journalist, Sister Agatha is enjoined by her superior to find the murderer. Luckily, she can turn for help in her quest to a retired police dog who adopts her for help in her quest. Lay Catholics curious about convent life will find the details ring true, while even non-Catholics will find themselves caught up in the orderly round of work and prayer. (Nov. 11) FYI: The Thurlos, a husband-and-wife team, are also the authors of Second Sunrise: A Lee Nez Novel, the first of a vampire mystery series due later this fall. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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Placing Special Agent Ella Clah of the Navajo Tribal Police on hold after seven outings (Changing Woman, p. 147, etc.), the Thurlos get themselves to a nunnery. And if things were tough on the rez, it's no picnic in the cloister either. The Sisters of the Blessed Adoration, an order in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley, are up against it. Their young chaplain-popular who-would-ever-want-to-harm-him Father Anselm-was about to consecrate the bread and wine for morning Mass when he suddenly staggered back, grabbed at his chest, and collapsed of massus interruptus. Even worse, he's not the victim of a heart attack, but . . . poison? murder? an inside job? The evidence seems to say so. Enter aptly named Sister Agatha. A topnotch investigative reporter before receiving her vocation, she's ordered by Reverend Mother, who fears the very survival of her home, to don her snooper's cap once more and crack the case. Sister Agatha, an extern (uncloistered) nun, goes about her task industriously. Looming large in her path, however, is a particularly obdurate obstacle: sullen, resentful Sheriff Tom Green, who knew her when she was free-spirited Mary Naughton, that unabashed swinger. Pre-habit, they cohabited, and he has never quite gotten over being among those she forsook. But formerly sexy Sister Agatha, born to sleuth and rooted in tradition, will duel him to a ratiocinative standstill and catch her killer cozily.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312934767
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 11/2/2004
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 532,569
  • Series: Sister Agatha Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 6.74 (w) x 4.10 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Meet the Author

Aimée and David Thurlo are the authors of more than forty novels, including seven mysteries featuring Ella Clah, and have been published in more than twenty countries. Bad Faith is the first book in a series to feature Sister Agatha. The authors live in Corrales, New Mexico.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2009

    Fun Read

    I love the use of the cloistered nuns as characters - I don't know how realistic the portrayal is, but that is what intrigued me about this story and made it readable.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    engaging tale

    Once she was known as Mary Naughton, an investigative reporter, but a tragic event in her life set her on a new path. She is now known as Sister Agatha an extern nun living in the cloistered monastery of the Sisters of the Blessed Adoration in Bernalillo, New Mexico. She is one of two nuns who have contact with the outside world while the rest of the sisters remain isolated dealing only with one another.

    One day when Father Anselm is giving the sacrament to the nuns, he has a seizure and dies. At first everyone thinks he had a heart attack but it isn¿t long before it is discovered that he has been poisoned. It is unthinkable to Sister Agatha that anybody from the monastery could have done such a horrendous deed but she uses the skills she obtained as a reporter to prove to the police that the nuns are innocent of committing murder.

    Readers get an insider¿s look at a cloistered monastery and will find themselves fascinated by a group of gentle women who have chosen to cut themselves off from the world. The audience will find it very entertaining to see the heroine piece together who did it and why. The Thurlos have another winning series to their credit.

    Harriet Klausner

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