Sister Carol Anne O'Marie/5
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Sister Mary Helen and her Irish friend, Sister Eileen, need some R&R away from the pressures of their inner city vocation. A week at the idyllic St. Colette's Retreat House, snuggled amid towering redwoods 65 miles from San Francisco, sounds like heaven. Unfortunately the muddled sisters mistakenly arrive a week too early and find that St. Colette's is hosting a convention of hard drinking, high spirited priests. And when the serenity is further shattered by the mur... >Voir plus
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J'ai beaucoup apprécié l'humour de l'auteure, ainsi que l'intrigue. Dans la même lignée que « Father Brown » et « Father Dowling », le personnage principal est une religieuse curieuse et observatrice. Ce sera un plaisir de lire un autre roman de Sister Carol Anne O'Marie.
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Sister Mary Helen frowned and cocked her head as if she had not quite heard. That’s one of the advantages of growing old, she thought, stalling for time.
Accepting death, especially sudden and violent death, takes a great deal of hope and trust in God’s promises.
“I’m sure Tom does a lot of good with his particular brand of charm,” Mary Helen said (…) “And remember we’re talking about God here who can write straight with the crookedest lines.” She shrugged and added logically, “God has to if He wants His message out. All He has to write with is a lot of us sinners.”
Whoever invented coffee breaks should be canonized! (…) Only a true saint could think of such a simple way to insert a few quiet minutes into our busy lives; a time when it is considered perfectly respectable to blow and sip and just daydream.
That’s the trouble with some of the young ones today, Mary Helen thought, watching Mike’s serious face. Little to no sense of humor. Everything so deadly serious. You’d think God took a coffee break and left them in charge!
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Retrouvez le bon adjectif dans le titre - (6 - polars et thrillers )
Roger-Jon Ellory : " **** le silence"
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