Sister Mary Teresa Books in Order

Threats against television station owner Cheryl Pitman drive her to seek refuge with Sister Mary Teresa. The elderly Chicago nun and her two younger companions become involved in a mystery that brings an endangered outsider into their household.

A series of murders targeting women in their Chicago neighborhood draws Sister Mary Teresa and her companions into an investigation. Sisters Kim and Joyce join the older nun in trying to discover who is responsible for the killings.

The husband of one of Sister Mary Teresa's former pupils is found dead, along with a star player on a celebrated girls' soccer team. The Chicago nun follows her intuition into a case linking her old student to the murders.

A former student's involvement in murder draws Sister Mary Teresa back into detective work. This fourth mystery in the series follows the Chicago nun's investigation of a crime brought close to home through her connection to the pupil.

A television appearance brings Sister Mary Teresa into contact with a novelist who humiliates public figures through thinly disguised fiction. When he is strangled, the Chicago nun investigates a circle of targets whose resentments may conceal a motive for murder.

Lydia Hopkins leaves prison on a technicality but remains suspected of killing her husband and daughter. Sister Mary Teresa shelters her in the convent and enlists Sisters Kim and Joyce to investigate, determined to establish whether Lydia was wrongly convicted.

A Carmelite nun comes to Chicago to testify about an accusation that her deceased father murdered his mistress. When she disappears from Sister Mary Teresa's household, the search draws the sisters into a case complicated by another killing.

A former student of Sister Mary Teresa is stabbed to death, and her estranged husband confesses. Doubting his guilt, Emtee and Sister Kim investigate with a retired newswoman, despite objections from the police, as another murder deepens the mystery.

Police investigator Richard Moriarity searches for a serial killer targeting young women around Chicago and Schaumburg. Sister Mary Teresa suspects connections to her religious order and its former college, even as friends begin questioning the elderly nun's judgment.

Four novellas and three short stories collect Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey's investigations. The Chicago nun confronts cases involving a suspicious hit-and-run, a planned spousal killing, and a terrorist threatening a police officer, bringing her deductive skills to varied criminal schemes.