SYKM


Clergy
Priests, Rabbis, Monks, Nuns
Boris Akunin
  • Sister Pelagia: nun in a province beyond the Volga, in 19th century Russia

Irene Allen
  • Elizabeth Elliot: 60-something widowed Quaker meeting clerk in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Veronica Black
  • Sister Joan: investigative nun in Cornwall, England

Michelle Blake
  • Lily Connor: Episcopalian priest in Boston, Massachusetts

William Brodrick
  • Father Anselm: lawyer turned monk, in Larkwood Priory, England

Kate Charles
  • Callie Anson: newly ordained Anglican cleric, her boyfriend Mark Lombardi, a police officer, and DI Neville Stewart, in London, England
  • Book of Psalms mysteries: Lucy Kingsley, an artist, David Middleton-Brown, a solicitor, in London, England

G.K. Chesterton
  • Father Brown: gentle, quiet little cleric in England

Alys Clare
  • Abbess Helewise: and Sir Josse d’Acquin, a French knight, at the Hawkenly Abbey in England during the 12th century

Margaret Coel
  • John Aloysius O’Malley: Jesuit missionary, and Vicky Holden, an Arapaho attorney, on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Paul Doherty (originally written as Paul Harding)
  • Brother Athelstan: Dominican monk, and John Cranston, a coroner, in 14th century London, England

Margaret Frazer
  • Sister Frevisse: nun in the 1400s in Oxfordshire, England

Kate Gallison
  • Mother Lavinia Grey: Episcopal vicar and therapist, in Fishersville, New Jersey

Barbara Reichmuth Geisler
  • Dame Averilla: infirmaress at the Benedictine abbey near Shaftesbury in 12th century Norman England

Andrew M. Greeley
  • Father John Blackwood “Blackie” Ryan: Catholic priest in Chicago, Illinois

D.W. Greenwood
  • Theodora Braithwaite: clergy woman in London, England

Susanna Gregory
  • Brother Michael and Matthew Bartholomew, physician, in 14th century Cambridge, England

Lynette Hampton
  • Willa Hinshaw: spunky associate minister at Liverpoole First United Methodist Church, in Liverpoole, North Carolina

Mollie Hardwick
  • Rodney Chelmarsh: vicar, and his wife Doran Fairweather, antiques seller, in Kent, England

Lee Harris
  • Christine Bennett: ex-nun in New York

Edward D. Hoch
  • Simon Ark: 2000 year old Coptic priest, in New York City

Isabelle Holland
  • Rev. Claire Aldington: psychologist and Episcopal priest at St. Anselm’s, in Manhattan, New York

H.H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher)
  • Sister Ursula: nun detective

Alison Joseph
  • Sister Agnes Bourdillon: ex-cloistered nun, in London, England
Sharon Kahn
  • Ruby Rothman: rabbi’s widow in Eternal, Texas

Harry Kemelman
  • David Small: rabbi sleuth in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts

William X. Kienzle
  • Father Robert Koesler: Catholic priest in Detroit, Michigan

Michael Lister
  • John Jordan: prison chaplain at the Potter Correctional Institution in north Florida

David Manuel
  • Brother Bartholomew: member of a religious community at Faith Abbey in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Ralph M. McInerny
  • Father Roger Dowling: St. Hilary’s parish priest in Fox River, Illinois

Marilyn Meredith
  • Tempe Crabtree: woman deputy torn between her Native American (Yanduchi) traditions and her loyalty to Hutch, her minister husband, in Bear Creek, California

Charles Meyer
  • Reverend Lucas Holt: Episcopal priest and ex-prison chaplain, in Austin, Texas

Sharan Newman
  • Catherine LeVendeur: novice and scholar in 12th-century France

Carol Anne O’Marie
  • Sister Mary Helen: retired nun in San Francisco, California
Katherine Hall Page
  • Faith Fairchild: marries a clergyman and leaves New York City for a small town in New England

Ellis Peters
  • Brother Cadfael: 12th century monk and herbalist in Shrewsbury, England

Monica Quill (Ralph M. McInerny)
  • Mary Teresa Dempsey: 5'2'' 200-lb. nun in Chicago, Illinois

Simon Quinn (Martin Cruz Smith)
  • Francis Xavier Killy: “The Inquisitor,” a lay brother investigator for the Vatican

Brad Reynolds
  • Father Mark Townsend: Jesuit priest in Washington State

Emilie Richards
  • Aggie Sloan-Wilcox: wife of the minister of the Consolidated Community Church, in Emerald Springs, Ohio, in the Ministry Is Murder series

Phil Rickman
  • Merrily Watkins: Anglican priest and single mom, near the Welsh border, in northeast Herefordshire, England

Caroline Roe
  • Bishop Berenguer and Isaac, a blind physician, in 1350s Girona, Spain

Priscilla Royal
  • Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal in 11th century East Anglia, England

Margaret Scherf
  • Reverend Martin Buell: Episcopal rector in Farmington, Montana

Julia Spencer-Fleming
  • Clare Fergusson: newly-ordained Episcopal priest, and Russ Van Alystyne, Chief of Police, in Millers Kill, New York

Winona Sullivan
  • Cecile Buddenbrooks: licensed private investigator and heiress-nun, in Boston, Massachusetts

Joseph Telushkin
  • David Winter: rabbi in West Los Angeles, California

Aimee and David Thurlo
  • 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
  • Iliona: high priestess blackmailed into spying for Sparta, in 5th century BCE Greece

Peter Tremayne
  • Sister Fidelma: 7th century Celtic sister and legal advocate in Kildare, Ireland

Deborah Woodworth
  • Sister Rose Callahan: eldress of the community of believers at the Shaker village of North Homage, Kentucky

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