ANNOTATION

First in a new mystery series starring Christine Bennett--ex-nun and expert sleuth. After spending half her life in the convent, Christine volunteers to investigate a 40-year-old murder. 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. Original.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

WHO DONE IT ON THAT BAD FRIDAY?

The mother of "idiot savant" twins was brutally murdered with her own kitchen knife on Good Friday, 1950. Alone with the body until its discovery on Easter Sunday, the retarded but gifted twins left their bloody fingerprints all over the Brooklyn apartment. If they didn't kill their mother forty years ago, who did?

Nominated for an Edgar, Lee Harris's The Good Friday Murder introduces a series of "holiday Whodunits". Just out of the convent, new suburban NY homeowner/college poetry teacher Christine Bennett finds out "Who".

The Good Friday Murder is the first book of Lee Harris's popular "holiday" mystery series to be produced on tape. Actor/director Judith Roberts Seto's reading of the story gives new life to the novel's rich assortment of colorful characters from urban Brooklyn and suburban Westchester, NY.

These characters come in a wide variety of personalities and ethnic backgrounds -- the terrified but brave and caring young Polish baby-sitter who discovered the body, the coarse Brooklyn cop who withheld crucial information that might have exonerated the Talley twins of their mother's murder, the sweet little old Jewish lady harboring an ugly secret, and of course the desperate killer. This mystery provides suspense, romance, humor and highly charged drama.

"Christine Bennett" Fawcett Mysteries by Lee Harris: The Good Friday Murder* The Yom Kippur Murder The Christening Day Murder The St. Patrick's Day Murder The Christmas Night Murder The Thanksgiving Day Murder The Passover Murder The Valentine's Day Murder The New Year's Eve Murder The Labor Day Murder

*Audio book publisher: Scheherazade Audiovisions, Inc.

Lee Harris is a pseudonym. The author has written several novels under her own name.

FROM THE CRITICS

Mostly Murder

This is the first of a new series of Christine Bennett mysteries, and Ms. Harris has created a likable and interesting character who undergoes a gentle metamorphosis during the course of the book. Her religious background is evidenced in her orderly and Spartan lifestyle, her innate kindness, and the perseverance she displays in tracking down clues and witnesses.

However, a new secular Christine is emerging who overcomes her shyness in order to interview witnesses and socialize with neighbors. And an incipient romance with Jack Brooks, the police sergeant helping her investigation, helps complete her transformation into a modern, independent woman.

Criminal Record

[Chris Bennett is] long on common sense, humor and humanity.

Hershey - Word Trade