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Death's a Beach [Mass Market Paperback]

Winona Sullivan (Author)
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Release Date: Nov 26 1997 | Series: Sister Cecile Mysteries
DEATH IN HIGH PLACES

In Miami, murder is nothing special. But the brutal slaying of Elliot Barclay proves otherwise. He was rich and he knew the right people. And a few wrong ones too, as beautiful nun/investigator Sister Cecile discovers when she's hired to find his killer. For a chain of violence connects Barclay's banking colleagues,  his glamorous girlfriends, and his underworld associates--even Cecile's own charge, twelve-year-old Leonie. And the sharks are still circling.

Barclay's death will not be the last. . . .

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In DEATH IS A BEACH, Winona Sullivan's nun/heiress/private eye Sister Cecil Buddenbrooks returns to her new setting in Miami Beach, far from the cold of Boston. Once again Cecil slips between worlds looking for a killer, and that's the reason I love this series. Like Faye Kellerman's characters, Sister Cecil has to make a real effort to remain true to her faith while working very much within "the world." Since nuns have always been a fascinating engima to me (and I certainly never met one who doubled as a private eye), I am fascinated by Sister Cecil and her machinations in order to do the right thing. She keeps her vows of simplicity and poverty by ordering something she won't really enjoy when dining with a source, turns someone who had been a threat into a friend by virtue of forgivness -- and don't even ask how she manages to subdue the villians without a gun. Instead, read it for yourself.

Amelia Zalcman, Director, Contracts Administration

About the Author

Before writing her Sister Cecile mysteries A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Café and Dead South, Winona Sullivan worked as an analyst for the CIA. She is a former resident of Massachusetts and now lives in Miami with her artist husband and four of her seven children.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Winona Sullivan has hit her stride with this mystery. Dec 10 1999
By Monica K. Van Ness
Format:Mass Market Paperback
After I read A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South, I wasn't sure if I'd bother to read Death's a Beach. I wasn't crazy about the first two books in the Sister Cecile series. However, this is the best of the three books. Good characters. Interesting situations. Held my interest all the way through.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed this story of a nun detective. Sep 21 1999
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I have just encountered another woman detective, in Death's a Beach. Author Winona Sullivan follows her P.I. nun into her second [and not last, I hope] case, where she is operating from a home for senior nuns and other seniors. The scenes and action come alive, showing the Everglades, Miami Beach, the gangsters, a sympathetic Miccosukee policeman, and another not-so-honest policeman. I was particularly drawn to the teenage ward of Sister Cecile and Jim Cypress, the Miccosukee 'good-cop.' The relationships and mutual understanding among the likeable and not-likeable characters were skillfully developed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed this story of a nun detective. Sep 21 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have just encountered another woman detective, in Death's a Beach. Author Winona Sullivan follows her P.I. nun into her second [and not last, I hope] case, where she is operating from a home for senior nuns and other seniors. The scenes and action come alive, showing the Everglades, Miami Beach, the gangsters, a sympathetic Miccosukee policeman, and another not-so-honest policeman. I was particularly drawn to the teenage ward of Sister Cecile and Jim Cypress, the Miccosukee 'good-cop.' The relationships and mutual understanding among the likeable and not-likeable characters were skillfully developed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Winona Sullivan has hit her stride with this mystery. Dec 10 1999
By Monica K. Van Ness - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
After I read A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South, I wasn't sure if I'd bother to read Death's a Beach. I wasn't crazy about the first two books in the Sister Cecile series. However, this is the best of the three books. Good characters. Interesting situations. Held my interest all the way through.
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