Why did Delia love this book?
New Orleans is a favorite city of mine, for its clammy claustrophobic parishes as much as its rollicking good times and extraordinary food. Scorched Grace delivers richly textured excursions into the heat and bent psyche of New Orleans, in a story led by Sister Holiday, a tattooed lesbian nun with grunge rocker vibes.
This exciting twist on noir and amateur sleuth tropes was fun, harrowing, heart-opening, and satisfying.
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Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this "unique and confident" debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn).
When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos.
Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn't satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path of…