Good Friday Murder

by Lee Harris

Book Overview

Christine Bennett has left the cloistered world of nuns for the profane world of New York State, where murder and madness are often linked. At a town meeting, Christine volunteers to investigate a forty-year-old murder case long since closed. Now she'll move heaven and earth to exonerate a pair of retarded savant twins, now senior citizens, of their mother's murder on Good Friday in 1950.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449147622
• ISBN13: 9780449147627
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

~~~An excellent read for mystery lovers of all ages~~~

After being released from her vows, ex-nun Christine Bennett volunteers to investigate a forty-year-old murder case long since closed. Christine has to bring the past into the present in an effort to exonerate a pair of retarded savant twins, now senior citizens, while she is also adjusting to her new life as a contemporary woman. Lee Harris has made the characters in this book come to life! This was the first but definitely will not be my last time reading a Lee Harris mystery!!!

Smart and believable

Christine Bennett is in the process of readjusting to "normal life" after spending 15 years as a cloistered nun. At a town meeting, she speaks in defense of disabled twin brothers accused of killing their mother 40 years before and to her surprise is put in charge of researching the case. As she starts to dig into the past, she meets a helpful (and smitten) police officer who helps in her search for the truth.Christina does not run around accusing people of the murder without evidence, judge suspects harshly for their past actions or deliberately place herself in danger which is a refreshing change. This is a refreshing cozy mystery with likeable characters and an engrossing mystery.

This is a WONDERFUL Book

If you can read (or listen to the audiobook version) this story and not be in tears by the end, you are a stronger reader than I am. This was one of the most moving stories I've ever read. Ms. Harris is able, in the guise of telling the simple tale of a nun who left the convent and gets involved in a mystery simply through the process of living her everyday life, to create characters who are so sympathy-engendering as to make them part of your life. They become like family--and their deaths had me sobbing. Add that to a well-crafted mystery story, and you have the beginning of a mystery series of books which one will want to read, and re-read in later years. May Ms. Harris be able to keep on writing Christine Bennettmystery stories!

chris bennett lives next door

what can i say? this is one of my favorite books, in large part because i feel that the characters are so real that i feel that i know them - a confession: as an "ex-nun" myself, i was delighted to find one in a book that was believable - i, like chris, just knew it was time to go back to secular life - i wasn't mad at anyone, i wasn't in love with anyone, and to this day i have my "sister josephs" in my life, although i have been gone from the convent for twenty three years and happily married for twenty two of these years - also, like chris, i met the man i married very shortly after leaving, and i tried to keep things casual until i had been out awhile, but... a friend at work gave me this book thinking i'd love it and i did...and immediately went out and acquired all the others then written, and can't wait for new ones -all of the "chris" books are just plain old good reads!

NOT A RUN-OF-THE-MILL MYSTERY!!

This is the first Christine Bennett mystery I read....as soon as I closed the last page, I went to my local bookstore and bought the complete series!! Christine spent half her life in a convent, and upon deciding that she was not cut out to be a nun, moved to her recently deceased Aunt's home in New York state.... While at a local town meeting in her town of Oakwood, she volunteered to investigate a murder by mentally challenged savard twins who were convicted of murdering their mother 50 years ago on Good Friday....the town members were afraid to allow Greenwillow Institution permission to relocate in Oakwood. Christine visited her own mentally challenged cousin, Gene, many times and got to know the savard twins. With the help of Jack Brooks, a local policeman, Christine solves this first of many mysteries.....at the same time they are realizing they each have feelings for the other....(this is only the beginning of a great relationship.......) This mystery, as well as those that follow, is a great read with original plot and superb character development....so many series seem to fizzle out after a few reads, but this one only gets better and better!! Any mystery that keeps me guessing right up to the end is a "5" in my book!!