The Missing Madonna by Carol Anne O'Marie

Author:Carol Anne O'Marie [O'Marie, Carol Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780312936952
Goodreads: 669672
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 1988-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Sunday afternoon at Mount St. Francis College was quiet. Many of the nuns who had families in the area had gone home for Mother’s Day. Only a skeleton crew remained.

Sister Therese was planning a surprise supper for those at home. Sometime after lunch she had taped a notice on the community room doorjamb: “Something we rarely have,” she had written, then underlined “Promptly at six” in red.

“What do you think she has in mind?” Mary Helen asked Sister Eileen who was standing next to her, reading the same note.

“If I were the gambling kind, I’d wager it will be the same surprise she always fixes.” Eileen whispered in case Therese was within earshot.

“I’m with you.” Young Sister Anne came up behind them. She must have overheard. “I’ll bet my new Reeboks”—she wiggled her toes in her pink tennis shoes—“that it’s eggplant lasagna.”

“Yuck!” Mary Helen couldn’t help wrinkling her nose. Somehow, Therese’s lasagna always tasted like a cross between rubber and hot lava. She couldn’t imagine what Therese did to the noodles—or to the eggplant, for that matter.

“If we are having something we rarely get, why not steak?” she grumbled, then felt guilty. People were starving and she was complaining about a wholesome meal.

“You do have to admit we rarely have the concoction.” Eileen grinned. “Only when Therese gets the urge to surprise us, which,” she added, rolling her eyes, “is mercifully rare.”

“Thank God!” Anne had taken the words right out of Mary Helen’s mouth.

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