Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'religious'
Meanwhile, back at the reservation ...
Denver author Margaret Coel returns to the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming in The Silent Spirit, a new mystery featuring John Aloysius O’Malley, a Jesuit missionary, and Vicky Holden, an Arapaho attorney. Father John and Vicky delve into the reservation's past when an Arapaho and his great-grandson are murdered nearly a century apart.True confessions
It has been said that G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific writer who devoted his entire career to journalism because as a journalist he could not avoid being a controversialist. He wrote essays, often 1500 words in length to fill a page, on a variety of subjects and these appeared in the Illustrated London News for 30 years. Next Sunday, June 21st, at 2 pm, the Usual Suspects Mystery Reading Group will discuss Father Brown: The Essential Tales, a fifteen story collection released by Modern Library in 2005. P. D. James writes in her introduction, “We read the Father Brown stories for a variety pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human heart.”Zen and the art of the mystery
Roshis, sesshins, zazens?
Meet Darcy Lott, Hollywood stuntwoman and Zen practitioner. When a stunt goes horribly wrong she retreats to Redwood Canyon Monastery.
She doesn’t quite find the tranquility she seeks, however, because she is drawn into the monastery intrigue when the enigmatic leader is poisoned and then she learns of the disappearance a young Zen student several years earlier.
Kosher cozy
Trouble is brewing at Temple Rita, and Ruby, the Rabbi’s widow, is, as usual, caught in the thick of it in her latest mystery Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Choir.
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