Girls Like You

The blisteringly paced third instalment in this acclaimed mystery series featuring a chain-smoking nun-detective

A New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024<BR><BR>Winner of Publishing Triangle’s Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing<BR><BR>Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove in this fast-paced, blistering follow-up to Scorched Grace. <BR><BR>“Sister Holiday is simply a joy of a narrator—and definitely my kind of character: flawed, dark, buoyant, and often laugh-out-loud funny.” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.

'One hell of a mystery.' Gillian FlynnKette rauchend durch die Sintflut: Die Punkrock-Nonne ermittelt im stürmischen New OrleansNach der Brandkatastrophe im Kloster kämpft Schwester Holiday darum, auf dem rechten Weg zu bleiben. Fest entschlossen, ihr Gelübde abzulegen, arbeitet sie nebenbei in der Detektei der Ex-Brandinspektorin Magnolia Riveaux. Als die beiden einen untreuen Ehemann überführen wollen, finden sie stattdessen die Leiche eines Priesters im Mississippi. Sintflutartige Regenfälle setzen New Orleans unter Wasser - und ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt ...Ausgezeichnet von der New York Times als bester Krimi des Jahres'Es ist aufregend, mit meiner Lieblings-Punkrock-Nonne nach New Orleans zurückzukehren. Schwester Holiday ist die beste Art von Ermittlerin: Sie hat keine Angst vor den dunkelsten Seiten der menschlichen Natur und sucht dennoch ständig das Beste in anderen.' GILLIAN FLYNN'Ein rauschhaftes Vergnügen.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

'Nach fünf Seiten war ich verknallt. Schwester Holiday ist einfach großartig.' Gillian Flynn'Eines der besten Krimidebüts, das mir seit langem untergekommen ist.' Don WinslowDie neue coole Krimi-Serie um Schwester Holiday, eine Nonne, die gerne Punkrock hört!Als ihre Klosterschule Ziel eines Brandanschlags wird und der Hausmeister Jack tot aufgefunden wird, stürzen die Schwestern und die umliegende Gemeinde ins Chaos. Unzufrieden mit den Ermittlungen der Behörden ist die eigensinnige Schwester Holiday, die gerne Punkrock hört und Kette raucht, entschlossen, den Täter selbst zu finden. Ihre Ermittlungen führen sie in der schwülen Hitze von New Orleans auf einen verschlungenen Pfad voller Verdächtigungen und Geheimnisse, der sie gegen ihre Mitschwestern aufbringt. Aber Schwester Holiday ist keine Heilige. Um den Fall zu lösen, muss sie sich mit den Sünden ihrer Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen ... Ein rasanter Auftakt zu Margot Douaihys cooler Serie, die dem Krimi-Genre mit einer ungewöhnlichen Hauptfigur neues Leben einhaucht. 

INDIE NEXT Pick • Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick • A CrimeReads Best Crime Novel of January 2026 <BR><BR>In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a “hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred.” (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines)<BR><BR>“Divine Ruin is fearlessly inspired.” (Gillian Flynn)<BR><BR>It’s a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is finishing her music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in her journey of faith. But when one of her favorite students is found dead of a fentanyl overdose, Sister Holiday and her partner-in-PI, Magnolia Riveaux, are determined to track down the drug dealers. As students continue to fall prey tothis sinister drug, Sister Holiday becomes more desperate to stop the epidemic—while facing her own past with addiction, a demon that is never too far.<BR><BR>With Douaihy’s signature mix of grit, heart, and faith, Divine Ruin tests the limits of Sister Holiday’s devotion in her darkest and most shocking case yet.

Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr is a polyphonic, docupoetic project exploring Belle Starr, a notorious Wild West outlaw, and her unsolved murder in 1889. Belle Starr traded a privileged upbringing for a life on the lam-marrying outlaws, thieving, and providing shelter for criminal gangs, all with her signature brocade and purple hats. After the media locked into her story, Belle Starr rocketed to fame. She "became" a compelling anti-hero, icon, and criminal mastermind-The Female Jesse James. Newspapers and books fabricated details about Belle, and a mass delusion seemingly took hold. But who was Belle Starr? Where do fiction and fact overlap? Today's evolving media ecosystem-fake news, deep fakes, carefully controlled social media profiles-underscore the enduring appeal of the person vs persona tension. A feminist analog to Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid, this archive-driven book merges documentary poetry by Margot Douaihy with scratchboard illustrations by Bri Hermanson to examine identity, desire, rule breaking, and (in)authenticity.