Blessed Water - A Sister Holiday Mystery

A New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024

Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove in this fast-paced, blistering follow-up to Scorched Grace.

Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she's committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux's latest venture, Redemption Detective Agency-both in service of satisfying her eternal quest for answers.

When Sister Holiday and Riveaux set out to bust a philandering husband, they instead find the body of a priest floating in the swollen Mississippi River, and with it, Redemption's next case. It's significantly more gruesome than their orig­inal mission, but Sister Holiday feels called on by God to hunt down the murderer and keep her community safe.

As a torrential rainstorm drowns New Orleans for three harrowing days over Easter weekend, Sister Holiday and Riveaux follow the clues. With the stakes rising alongside the relentless floodwaters, our favorite punk nun-sleuth throws herself into the deep end yet again.

A lacerating and lyrical plunge into obsession, deception, and the questions that hold us captive, Blessed Water is a lights-out mystery that will leave you breathless.

About the author

Margot Douaihy lives in Northampton, MA, and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. She is the author of the award-winning, nationally bestselling Sister Holiday series, in addition to the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. Her debut mystery, Scorched Grace, won The Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction and was named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times, The Guardian, and others.

Product details

• Authors: Margot Douaihy
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.05.2025
• EAN: 9781638932376
• ISBN: 978-1-63893-237-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 18 mm
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Relating to lesbians, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian