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The Divine Private Detective Agency Novels

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Sister Eve knows God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery. Especially a murder.

Two decades into her calling at a New Mexico monastery, Sister Evangeline Divine breaks her daily routine when a police officer appears, carrying a message from her father. Sister Eve is no stranger to the law, having grown up with a police captain turned private detective. She’s seen her fair share of crime—and knows a thing or two about solving mysteries.

But when Captain Jackson Divine needs her to return home and help him recover from surgery, Sister Eve finds herself taking on his latest case.

A Hollywood director has disappeared, and the sultry starlet he’s been running around with isn’t talking. When the missing man turns up dead, Captain Divine’s case escalates into a full-blown murder case, and Sister Eve’s crime-solving instincts kick in with an almost God-given grace.

Soon Sister Eve finds herself soul-searching every step of the How can she choose between the vocation in her heart and the job in her blood?

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Published May 10, 2022

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Lynne Hinton

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Lynne Hinton is the pastor of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The author of numerous novels including Friendship Cake, Hope Springs, Forever Friends, Christmas Cake, and Wedding Cake, she lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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September 9, 2021
A refreshing new detective

Lookout Father Dowling there is a new sleuth solving murders and she is a nun. Welcome Sr. Eve with her detective dad solving the mysteries of a who'd one it with detective aiding her. The three mysteries of this book were interesting and fun to tag along with our heroes. You will love it as she goes about solving the mysteries. She has an abbot Brother Oliver who lets her go out of the convent to help her dad running the Divine Private Detective Agency.
Of course, you must pronounce their last name as Deveen and not Devine.
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March 10, 2025
Clean fiction set in New Mexico. Sister Evangeline Divine (pronounced Diveen) takes a leave of absence to car for her father when he has to have a leg amputated. He’s an ex-cop with a private detective agency. Over the books in the series she finds she is considered good at PI work and struggles with her future plans.
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March 11, 2020
I enjoyed these books. Sorry it ended & hope there will be more to come!
I enjoy a good mystery that has you turning the pages with anticipation.
And I was doing that very thing.
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