Donna Fletcher Crow

A Darkly Hidden Truth (The Monastery Murders)
By Donna Fletcher Crow (Monarch Books)
Release date: December 1, 2011
Felicity has decided to become a nun. She departs to visit convents in spite of her mother’s imminent arrival and Fr. Anselm’s request that she and Fr. Antony recover a missing priceless Russian icon before the Patriarch of Moscow arrives at the community for Holy Week. Felicity’s discernment journey takes her to Rempstone, Norwich, London, and Walsingham but her discovery of a friend’s murdered body in a shallow grave, the disappearance of more icons, the shooting of a London art expert just after she visits him, the disappearance of Antony, and finally the abduction of Felicity and her mother teach her far more about motherhood, life and love than she could learn in any convent retreat.

A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary (The Monastery Murders) (Volume 4)
By Donna Fletcher Crow (Greenbrier Book Company, LLC)
Release date: February 5, 2015
Who will be the next victim of the murderer stalking the shadows of Oxford’s hallowed shrines? Translating an ancient document in an Oxford convent should be a harmless venture, but Felicity just can’t seem to avoid danger. It’s hardly Felicity’s fault that severed body parts start showing up in ancient holy reliquaries. Or that Felicity and one of the nuns is assaulted. Felicity’s curiosity leads her to wonder why the nuns are in danger. Or why an ancient document would appear to be at the heart of the matter.

A Very Private Grave (The Monastery Murders)
By Donna Fletcher Crow (Monarch Books)
Release date: August 1, 2010
Felicity Howard, a young American studying at the College of the Transfiguration in Yorkshire, is devastated when she finds her beloved Fr. Dominic bludgeoned to death and Fr. Antony, her church history lecturer, soaked in his blood.

An Unholy Communion (The Monastery Murders)
By Donna Fletcher Crow (Lion Fiction)
Release date: March 22, 2013
Felicity’s ecstatic enjoyment of her fellow ordinands’ singing in Ascension Morn from the top of Pusey Tower at the College of the Transfiguration is shattered when a black-robed body hurtles over the precipice and rolls to a stop at her feet. Father Antony recognizes the corpse as Hwyl Pendry, a former student of his, who has been serving as Deliverance Minister in the diocese of St. David’s. The police ignore the strange emblem of a double-headed snake curling across a triangle Hwyl clutched in his hand and label the death a suicide. But Hwyl’s widow is convinced otherwise, and pleads for Felicity and Antony to help her uncover the truth.
Penny Culliford

The Art of Standing Still: A Novel
By Penny Culliford (Zondervan)
Release date: January 16, 2007
Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Even so, reporter Jemma Durham dreams of the story that will take her from the small Monksford Gazetteto a national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays that were performed across England hundreds of years ago—and life in Monksford turns decidedly more interesting.
William Cutrer
Lethal Harvest: A Novel
By William Cutrer, Sandra Glahn (Kregel Publications)
Release date: May 27, 2016
“A Machiavellian plot. [and] a satisfying medical thriller. ” —Library JournalIn order to save the president’s life, a brilliant embryologist— the president’s nephew&mdashmade a “devil’s bargain” with a secret group of federal agents.