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Clergy
Priests, Rabbis, Monks, Nuns |
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| Boris Akunin |
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Sister Pelagia: nun in a province beyond the Volga, in 19th century
Russia |
| Irene Allen |
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Elizabeth Elliot: 60-something
widowed Quaker meeting clerk in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| C.C. Benison |
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Father Tom Christmas:
widower with a 9-year-old daughter, and the new vicar in Thornford
Regis, a picturesque village in England |
| Veronica Black |
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Sister Joan: investigative
nun in Cornwall, England |
| Michelle Blake |
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Lily Connor: Episcopalian
priest in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Freda Bream |
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Rev. Jabal Jarrett: eccentric Anglican vicar in and near Auckland, New Zealand |
| William Brodrick |
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Father Anselm:
lawyer turned monk, in Larkwood Priory, England |
| Barbara Ninde Byfield |
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Simon Bede: an Episcopal priest and assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Helen Bullock, a world-famous photographer |
| Kate Charles |
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Callie Anson: newly
ordained Anglican cleric, her boyfriend Mark Lombardi, a police officer,
and DI Neville Stewart, in London, England |
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Book of Psalms mysteries:
Lucy Kingsley, an artist, David Middleton-Brown, a solicitor,
in London, England |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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Father Brown:
gentle, quiet little cleric in England |
| Alys Clare |
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Abbess Helewise:
and Sir Josse d’Acquin, a French knight, at
the Hawkenly Abbey in England during the 12th century |
| Cassandra Clark |
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Hildegard: wealthy
recent widow who becomes an abbess in late 14th century York, England,
in the Abbess of Meaux mysteries |
| Margaret Coel |
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John Aloysius O’Malley:
Jesuit missionary, and Vicky Holden,
an Arapaho attorney, on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming |
| Donna Fletcher Crow |
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Felicity Howard, a young American studying for the Anglican priesthood at the College of the Transfiguration in Yorkshire, England, in the Monastery Murders series |
| Paul Doherty (originally written as Paul Harding) |
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Brother Athelstan:
Dominican monk, and John Cranston, a coroner, in 14th century London,
England |
| Stephanie Jaye Evans |
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Walker “Bear” Wells: former college football player now serving as a minister in Sugar Land, Texas |
| Dean Feldmeyer |
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Rev. Daniel Thompson:
small-town Methodist minister with some personal
problems, in Baird, Kentucky |
| Margaret Frazer |
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Sister Frevisse:
nun in the 1400s in Oxfordshire, England |
| Kate Gallison |
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Mother Lavinia Grey:
Episcopal vicar and therapist, in Fishersville,
New Jersey |
| Barbara Reichmuth Geisler |
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Dame Averilla:
infirmaress at the Benedictine abbey near Shaftesbury in 12th
century Norman England |
| Juan Gómez-Jurado |
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Anthony Fowler:
former priest, CIA operative, and member of the Vatican’s secret
service |
| Susanna Gregory |
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Brother Michael
and Matthew Bartholomew, physician,
in 14th century Cambridge, England |
| Lynette Hampton |
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Willa Hinshaw:
spunky associate minister at Liverpoole First United
Methodist Church, in Liverpoole, North Carolina |
| Mollie Hardwick |
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Rodney
Chelmarsh: vicar, and his wife Doran Fairweather, antiques seller, in Kent, England |
| Suzette A. Hill |
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Rev. Francis Oughterard:
the vicar of Molehill and a flustered murderer and blackmail victim,
along with Bouncer the dog and Maurice the cat, in 1950s Surrey,
England |
| Edward D. Hoch |
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Simon Ark: 2000 year old Coptic priest, in New York City |
| Isabelle Holland |
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Rev. Claire Aldington: psychologist and Episcopal priest at St.
Anselm’s, in Manhattan, New York |
| Harry Kemelman |
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David Small: rabbi sleuth in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts |
| Michael Lister |
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John Jordan: prison
chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida |
| William F. Love |
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Francis X. Regan:
wheelchair-bound Catholic Bishop, and his assistant David Goldman,
a Jewish ex-cop private eye, in New York City |
| G.M. Malliet |
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Max Tudor: former MI-5
agent, now vicar at St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of
Nether Monkslip, England |
| David Manuel |
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Brother Bartholomew:
member of a religious community at Faith Abbey in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Marilyn Meredith |
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Tempe Crabtree:
woman deputy torn between her Native American (Yanduchi)
traditions and her loyalty to Hutch, her minister husband, in Bear
Creek, California |
| Tamar Myers |
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Amanda Brown:
young American missionary in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s |
| Katherine Hall Page |
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Faith
Fairchild: marries a clergyman and leaves
New York City for a small town in New England |
| Ellis Peters |
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Brother Cadfael:
12th century monk and herbalist in Shrewsbury, England |
| Simon Quinn (Martin Cruz Smith) |
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Francis Xavier Killy: “The
Inquisitor,” a lay brother
investigator for the Vatican |
| Emilie Richards |
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Aggie Sloan-Wilcox: wife of the minister of the Consolidated
Community Church, in Emerald Springs, Ohio, in the Ministry
Is Murder series |
| Phil Rickman |
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Merrily Watkins:
Anglican priest and single mom, near the Welsh
border, in northeast Herefordshire, England |
| Caroline Roe |
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Bishop Berenguer
and Isaac, a blind physician, in 1350s Girona,
Spain |
| James Runcie |
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Sidney Chambers: 32-year-old bachelor, vicar of Grantchester, and amateur sleuth, in 1950s Cambridgeshire, England, in the Grantchester mysteries |
| Charles Merrill Smith |
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Reverend C.P. “Con” Randollph:
a former professional football quarterback, now minister of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, housed in a skyscraper where the penthouse
serves as the manse, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Julia Spencer-Fleming |
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Clare Fergusson:
newly-ordained Episcopal priest, and Russ Van
Alystyne, Chief of Police, in Millers Kill, New York |
| Winona Sullivan |
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Cecile Buddenbrooks:
licensed private investigator and heiress-nun,
in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Jennifer Stanley |
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Cooper Lee: a newly
single office machine repair woman and member of the Sunrise Bible
Study Group in Richmond, Virginia, in the Hope Street Church mysteries |
| Joseph Telushkin |
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David Winter: rabbi in West Los Angeles, California |
| Aimee and David Thurlo |
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Sister Agatha:
former investigative journalist, now one of
the extern sisters, the convent's link to the outside world, at the
Our Lady of Hope Monastery, in New Mexico |
| Marilyn Todd |
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Iliona:
high priestess blackmailed into spying for Sparta, in 5th century BCE Greece |
| Peter Tremayne |
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Sister Fidelma:
7th century Celtic sister and legal advocate in Kildare, Ireland |
| Deborah Woodworth |
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Sister Rose Callahan:
eldress of the community of believers at the Shaker village of North
Homage, Kentucky |
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