Hasty Retreat (Mother Lavinia Grey Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0385318960 / Publisher: Delacorte Press, June 1997
Mother Lavinia "Vinnie" Grey, vicar of the embattled St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Fisherville, New Jersey, attempts to track down the killer of an elderly monk on a parish retreat
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Taking a much needed respite from her duties as vicar of the ever-embattled St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Fishersville, New Jersey, Mother Lavinia "Vinnie" Grey finds that parish politics have followed her on a weekend retreat to the monastery of St. Hugh in upstate New York. Led by Brother Basil, a devout and erudite monk, the retreat takes a bad turn when Father Rupert Bingley, Mother Vinnie's arch nemesis, shows up at St. Hugh's accompanied by a pompous politico, a wiggly blonde, and an assortment of other charming oddballs.From there, things only get worse. Poor Brother Basil is found dead and questions need to be answered posthaste: Who on the retreat was guarding a deadly secret? How did the elderly monk's presence threaten to reveal that secret? And can they stop the killer from getting away with murder?
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