Margot Douaihy presenting “Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery” in conversation with KIRSTEN IMANI KASAI

Harvard Book Store welcomes MARGOT DOUAIHY—Assistant Professor in Popular Fiction Writing & Literature at Emerson College author of Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery—for a discussion of her highly anticipated follow-up novel Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery. She will be joined in conversation by KIRSTEN IMANI KASAI—author of The House of Erzulie, Ice Song, and Tattoo.

About Blessed Water

Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she’s committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux’s latest venture, Redemption Detective Agency—both in service of satisfying her eternal quest for answers.

When Sister Holiday and Riveaux set out to bust a philandering husband, they instead find the body of a priest floating in the swollen Mississippi River, and with it, Redemption’s next case. It’s significantly more gruesome than their orig­inal mission, but Sister Holiday feels called on by God to hunt down the murderer and keep her community safe.

As a torrential rainstorm drowns New Orleans for three harrowing days over Easter weekend, Sister Holiday and Riveaux follow the clues. With the stakes rising alongside the relentless floodwaters, our favorite punk nun-sleuth throws herself into the deep end yet again.

A lacerating and lyrical plunge into obsession, deception, and the questions that hold us captive, Blessed Water is a lights-out mystery that will leave you breathless.