Since I've been sick all week, I was looking for books to read. I saw Covenant of the Dead by Glenn Cooper on Facebook. The Boston locale, murdered nuns, and it looked like a series. Have I found a new Three Pines Mysteries?
I hope so. I could just picture the locales. Been there, many times. The major characters are Sister Elisabetta Celestino and Cal Donovan. Boston Police Detectives Santos and Trinh, are important, too.
Three nuns are murdered and there was nothing stolen except their rosaries. Eli (Sister Elisabetta) and Cal pay a visit to the nuns. Then in the Boston Globe, there's news that the murderer is a priest with a red nose. That fits the description of only one priest and he's accused. He suspiciously dies before going to trial.
Eli and Cal pay a visit to the medium that said a priest with a red nose did it. There's a picture above the mantel of Arthur Conan Doyle--think Sherlock Holmes. It seems he had been to this very house and had a seance.
That was over a hundred years ago and the Bostonians rioted to have these necromancers out of their city. A riot broke out and the medium's four children burned to death. She blamed the nuns because they were very vocal with their rosaries and singing. Mmmmmm. Keep that in mind.
More tragedy to the medium's family. Her husband and only remaining child were in a car accident. Husband died and the daughter had to have her legs amputated. This is the daughter who earns her living doing seances.
Meanwhile, back in academia (Eli and Cal are professors at Harvard Divinity School). They contact people in the know to look up Arthur Conan Doyle and Boston seance. Their research also uncovers similar nuns' deaths, dating back a hundred years. After putting two and two together, rather parenthetical equations, the answer is revealed.
That's not the end. This is a thriller. Now that you know who and how, you better move fast to stop more murders.
