Books


Grave Misgivings
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: October 16, 1998 by Delacorte
Series Name: Mother Lavinia Grey
Category: Clerical Mystery
Stone angels are disappearing from the Fishersville cemetery, only to reappear in antique stores several states away; even the occasional grave is going missing. As she unravels the mystery of what's happening in her little town, Mother Vinnie uncovers stories of hate and heartbreak dating all the way back to the Great Flood of 1955.
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Hasty Retreat
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: July 1, 1997 by Delacorte
Series Name: Mother Lavinia Grey
Category: Clerical Mystery
Mother Vinnie takes her parishioners on a weekend retreat to a monastery in upstate New York. But the weekend goes seriously bad when Vinnie's political enemies show up, and instead of peaceful prayers, shenanigans take place, culminating in the murder by knitting needle of an elderly monk.
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Unholy Angels
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: September 10, 1996 by Dell
Series Name: Mother Lavinia Grey
Category: Clerical Mystery
When an evil developer tries to turn the Little League ball field into a resort hotel, no one in town is very much grieved when he is found shot to death. Mother Grey, however, must track down the killer, if only to save the soul of a young boy in her parish. She finds the solution to the crime buried in the complex blood relationships among the long-time denizens of Fishersville.
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Devil's Workshop
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: February 16, 1996 by Dell
Series Name: Mother Lavinia Grey
Category: Clerical Mystery
Devil worshipers have invaded Fishersville. Things are bad enough for Mother Vinnie, priest of St. Bede's Episcopal Church, what with struggling with the Evil One and trying to keep her friends at the young men's halfway house from going crazy (again). Then the corpse with the missing head turns up.
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Bury the Bishop
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: February 16, 1995 by Dell
Series Name: Mother Lavinia Grey
Category: Clerical Mystery
Vinnie Grey, the new young priest at the moribund Episcopal church of St. Bede's, Fishersville, has been charged by the diocesan bishop with the task of gracefully closing it within three months. She refuses; they disagree quite strongly. This may be why, when Vinnie stumbles over the bishop's dead body in the cloakroom at the convention, she is the first one the police suspect of killing him.
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The Jersey Monkey
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: September 20, 1992 by St. Martin's Press
Category: Private Eye
When Nick Magaracz undertakes to protect the CEO of a New Jersey pharmaceutical firm from real or imagined poisoning attacks, he uncovers tainted drugs, illicit sex and murder.
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The Death Tape
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: July 14, 1987 by Little, Brown
Category: Private Eye
Nick Magaracz is back at work for the State of New Jersey. Hot on the trail of a terrorist who faked his own death, Nick stumbles onto a plot to blow up the Division of Taxation.
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Unbalanced Accounts
Author: Kate Gallison
Published: March 16, 1986 by Little, Brown
Category: Private Eye
When the detective business in Trenton gets so slow that he can't pay for his daughter's orthodontia, Nick Magaracz jumps at his wife's cousin's offer of a job tracking down lost checks for the State of New Jersey, posing as an accountant. Why not? it looks like easy work, until the bodies begin to fall.
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