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Sister and brother duo Lily and Robert Brewster may not have a penny to their names, but at least they're in good company -- times couldn't be tougher in the Hudson River Valley during the Great Depression, and even the much-revered chief of police has abandoned his boardinghouse. The poor town has been stripped of its post office, too. Now mail gets dumped off the trains steaming along the Hudson River, and people have to rummage through the bags to find their letters and packages.
When a shocked Robert discovers a group of gossipy old women snooping through other people's mail -- even threatening to destroy it! -- he knows something must be done. Perhaps he could hire the kindly train porter, who recently helped haul bags for a young widow and her newly arrived German grandfather, to sort through the mail in an orderly (and private) fashion? But when the porter is found dead, and a red swastika is found painted on the pretty widow's grandfather's shop window, Robert knows that something much deeper, and much darker, is happening in his sleepy little town.
Even back at Grace and Favor, where Lily and Robert live, things are falling apart. The Harbinger brothers -- Voorburg's favorite handymen, who've been hired to work on the mansion's grounds -- have just unearthed a very, very old skeleton -- right in the Brewsters' front yard! Could the two murders be related? It's up to Lily and Robert to find out the truth before their quiet community is torn apart by hatred, secrets, and a killer who may have set his sights on Grace and Favor. . . .
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En una sociedad fuertemente tentada por la desesperación, la fe en Jesús de Nazaret sostiene nuestra esperanza y nos hace llevar la fiesta en el corazón, cantando cada día la Buena Noticia que Él nos trae de parte de Dios: los ciegos ven y los cojos andan, los leprosos quedan limpios, los sordos oyen, los muertos resucitan y a los pobres se les anuncia la salvación -Lc 11,5-. Los dominicos y dominicas llevamos 800 años predicando que Dios ha puesto su tienda entre nosotros y se ha hecho carne de nuestra carne y vida de nuestra vida.Estas páginas recogen el itinerario de nuestra vocación, que se nutre de la oración contemplativa y del servicio a los pobres y necesitados; de la fraternidad evangélica vivida en comunidad, y de la mirada atenta a nuestro mundo, que nos posibilita dispensar la misericordia que recibimos de Dios y de los hermanos.Brindamos por el largo camino recorrido y por la fidelidad de nuestro Dios que no nos abandona en nuestro peregrinar cotidiano, mientras permanecemos a los pies de Jesús, Señor de nuestras vidas, que nos explica las Escrituras y nos hace arder de pasión por el Reino.Celebramos la vida porque el amor de Dios ha sido derramado en nuestros corazones y porque este amor nos hace arder e iluminar, contemplar y dar lo contemplado.Sor Lucía Caram (Tucumán, Argentina, 1966). Monja dominica contemplativa que reside en el Monasterio Santa Clara de Manresa desde el año 1994. Estudió teología en Argentina y completó su formación religiosa durante cinco años en Torrente, Valencia.Trabaja activamente en el diálogo interreligioso de base desde 1996; es miembro fundador del Proyecto Mosaic de Salud Mental con los Hermanos de San Juan de Dios, de la Fundación SOS Tucumán y de la asociación socio-cultural La Xarxa de Manresa.Autora de varios libros de temática religiosa y de espiritualidad, dirige un programa semanal en la Cadena SER, El Punt de Trobada, y un programa de televisión en Canal Taronja que llega a 22 comarcas de Cataluña.
Author Notes
Jill Churchill (born Janice Young Brooks) on January 11, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a degree in education from the University of Kansas in 1965 before teaching elementary school. Between 1978 and 1992, she was book reviewer for the Kansas City Star. She published several historical novels under her real name before introducing a new series in 1989. This mystery series follows Jane Jeffry, a widow with three children in Chicago. With her neighbor and best friend, she gets involved in murder cases. The novel titles are puns on literary works and reflect Jeffry's cozy domestic life which she leads between crime-solving episodes.
Churchill is the winner of the Agatha and Macavity Awards for her first Jane Jeffrey novel and was featured in Great Women Mystery Writers in 2007.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In the spring of 1933, Lily Brewster and her brother, Robert, investigate two murders in their little Hudson Valley town-that of a train porter and that of an individual whose skeleton is unearthed on the grounds of Grace & Favor mansion-in Jill Churchill's Who's Sorry Now?: A Grace & Favor Mystery, her delightful sixth Depression-era cozy (after 2004's It Had to Be You). (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Author of the Jane Jeffry series, contemporary mysteries set in suburban Chicago, Churchill focuses here on her historical series set in the Depression-era Hudson Valley and starring brother and sister Robert and Lily Brewster, who live in the beautiful old Grace & Favor mansion with a variety of interesting boarders. This time a new resident of Voorburg-on--Hudson is targeted by racists. The grandfather of a Voorburg resident has just arrived from Germany and soon finds a big red swastika painted on his shop window. Shortly after, a kindly train porter is found brutally murdered in the train station. Who is perpetuating such hatred? Robert and Lily play relatively small roles this time, with the story focusing on police chief Howard Walker and his admiring deputy, Ron Parker. A fair, kind, and smart hero, Walker is delightful to be around, and the relationship between the two cops is a highlight of the story. Churchill's spare yet eloquent prose fits perfectly with an era that eschews waste of any kind. The nice mix of Depression history and cozy ambience is reminiscent of a Preston Sturges film. --Jenny McLarin Copyright 2006 Booklist