Sister Pelagia and the red cockerel

By B. Akunin

Subjects: Middle east, fiction, Fiction, Nuns, fiction, Women private investigators, Russia (federation), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Detective and mystery stories, Nuns

Description: When someone bashes in the head of Manuila, the messianic leader of a rogue Jewish sect, aboard a steamboat on which Pelagia happens to be a passenger, her observations prove useful to the investigating officer. After several attempts on her life, she's shipped off to Palestine, where she continues to look for the truth behind Manuila's murder.