Scorched Grace.: A Sister Holiday Mystery
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[United States] : Zando, 2023.
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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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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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Booklist Review

Let's face it, Sister Holiday--openly queer and heavily tattooed--is not your grandmother's nun. And yet here she is in New Orleans, a nun of the Order of the Sisters of the Sublime Blood. And, oh, yes, she is a self-styled detective to boot, working unofficially on a sensational case. There has been a terrible fire at Saint Sebastian School, and one of the custodians died in the conflagration. A case of arson, with the burning question being, Who set the blaze? The stakes are raised when there is a second fire, and one of the nuns is found dead, not from burns but from falling down a staircase--or was she pushed? Douaihy handles these questions with aplomb, though there are invitations to suspend disbelief, and readers will tire of reading about how hot it is in New Orleans and how much the characters sweat. That said, Holiday is an interesting character, and her story is well plotted--a good thing, since this is obviously going to be a series. Next!

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Sister Holiday Walsh, the narrator of poet Douaihy's stunning fiction debut and series launch, calls herself "the first punk nun." 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. Yet Holiday is most sincere about her faith in God, her devotion to the Catholic Church, and finding a home among the Sisters of the Sublime Blood in New Orleans. When Saint Sebastian's School where she teaches is targeted by an arson attack in which a beloved janitor dies, Holiday turns sleuth to find the attacker and save the school, which is in danger of being closed by the diocese. More fires--and deaths--occur as Holiday's investigation heats up, pitting her against her fellow sisters and staff. Given her background, she becomes a prime suspect. This briskly plotted master class in character development makes the most of its New Orleans setting, "the crucible... of miracles and curses." Douaihy (Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr) is off to a terrific start. Agent: Laura Macdougall, United Agents. (Feb.)

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Library Journal Review

DEBUT The first novel by poet Douaihy, coeditor of Cambridge's Elements in Crime Narratives series, features punk rocker--turned--music teacher Sister Holiday, the only chain-smoking, tattooed, queer nun of the Sisters of the Sublime Blood in New Orleans, who tends to confiscate her students' cigarettes. She's sneaking a smoke in the alley beside the convent when the school erupts in fire and the janitor's flaming body drops from a second-floor window. Sister Holiday rushes in, finds two students trapped in a classroom, and helps save them. When she overhears the fire investigator declaring the blaze an arson, Sister Holiday turns investigator to expose the firebug; though she never went to college, her father was a cop, and she's read plenty of old PI novels. Then the police rule a second death accidental, and Sister Holiday concludes that only she cares enough to find the arsonist who seems determined to shut down her small religious order. VERDICT The first book from suspense novelist Gillian Flynn's imprint at Zando. Sister Holiday's violent, sexually provocative past life and her current language and behavior might be too outrageous for some readers, but the series has already been acquired for a prestige-television adaptation.--Lesa Holstine

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APA Citation (style guide)

Douaihy, M., & Wilson, M. (2023). Scorched Grace. Unabridged. [United States], Zando.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Douaihy, Margot and Mara, Wilson. 2023. Scorched Grace. [United States], Zando.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Douaihy, Margot and Mara, Wilson, Scorched Grace. [United States], Zando, 2023.

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Douaihy, Margot, and Mara Wilson. Scorched Grace. Unabridged. [United States], Zando, 2023.

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