Unholy Angels (A Mother Lavinia Grey Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]

Kate Gallison (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Mother Lavinia Grey Mystery | Publication Date: August 1, 1996

Mother Lavinia Grey, heroine of Devil's Workshop, returns to her flock at St. Bede's Episcopal Church of New Jersey, where the good-humored and long-suffering vicar joins her battle with shady real estate developers.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Gallison's trademark oddball characters, tied together in her smooth style, reappear again in a third Mother Lavinia Grey mystery (after Devil's Workshop). Episcopalian vicar Mother Vinnie has her hands full as she deals with the problems of St. Bede's parishioners, Little League baseball, the murders of two prominent citizens, and constant chaos in Fisherville, N.J. A goodly amount of the chaos comes from the natural eccentricities of the townsfolk. As Mother Vinnie describes a few of them getting into a minivan, "It was like watching a group of vegetables climb into a pressure cooker and pull the lid down after themselves." There's tons of fun to be had between the covers of this book. However, in order to enjoy this installment to the fullest, readers are advised to first read previous titles in the series.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Dell; First Edition edition (August 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440222206
• ISBN-13: 978-0440222200
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,043,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance fiction prize for The Edge of Ruin, Kate Gallison writes the Emily Daggett Weiss silent movie mysteries under the name of Irene Fleming.

As Kate Gallison she wrote the acclaimed Mother Lavinia Grey murder mystery series about the struggles of a woman priest in the Episcopal church in a small New Jersey town, and another series about Nick Magaracz, a Trenton private detective.

She lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with her husband and their cat. She is descended from a convicted Salem witch.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Little League and Murder, January 7, 2002

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Moe811 (New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Angels (A Mother Lavinia Grey Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)

The most hated man in Fisherville is planning to build a resort hotel on land that is now used as a little league field. Everyone in town is up in arms about it. A group of local kids burglarize his home, stealing several target pistols. The project is halted due to the fact that a state park was included in the parking area. The developer is found dead soon after. Who killed him? A rash of murders follows. Mother Lavinia Grey is determined to find the killer.

This is a very good Mother Lavinia mystery. There is alot of action and she has a new love interest. Detective Dogg has apparently gone back to his ex-wife. Fisherville is becoming a more interesting and a more dangerous place to live.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Amateur Detective With Good Insights., November 18, 2000

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Rosemary Brunschwyler (Homewood, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Angels (A Mother Lavinia Grey Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)

Mother Lavinia Grey is a priest at St. Bede's Episcopal Church in the quiet New Jersey river town of Fishersville. Freddy Kane, one of her cello students, and three other boys break into a house belonging to Bunker Todd, a greedy developer seeking to build a resort hotel on the town little league ball field, and steal several guns. When the police find Todd murdered near the bike path, there are several posible suspects. Mother Grey is an amateur detective who has an easy relationship with the few local police she encounters.Freddy in many ways resembles a modern Tom Sawyer. The book has a light-hearted tone but the denouement seems somewhat contrived.