Murder Most Divine : Ecclesiastical Tales of Unholy Crimes

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Summary: Stories that prey on your mind!
Review: No , Dan Brown is not among the authors of this "saintly collection" of short stories. There is no DaVinci revelation! However, what the editor has done in this anthology is to amass some spirited canons of literary merit, metaphorically speaking!

In "Murder Most Divine," we find the ecclesiastical range being quite thoroughly explored. These 18 stories present some good priests, some not so good priests, sleepwalking nuns, and other saintly (and sometimes not so saintly) souls, all mixed up in one commonality: murder.

Robert Bernard's "Holy Living and Holy Dying" is my favorite one in this collection. Bernard's rapier wit and chilling, clinical approach to the story makes this selection one to bow down for! Anthony Greeley keeps us in the 20th century with "The Bishop and the Hit Man" as only Father Greeley can do. P.C. Doherty goes back a few centuries (as he's known for doing in
all those great novels of his) with "The Monk's Tale." The others are all worthy reading, too. A fun fire-side sit-down read! ([e-mail])