mystery suspense

From clandestine meetings to code-crunching cipher wheels to secret compartments in antique desks that conceal what might be the "keys to the kingdom," Malone and his protégé Luke must solve King Ludwig's puzzle and reckon with the truth's implications for global power dynamics. M DEBUT The first novel by poet Douaihy, coeditor of Cambridge's Elements in Crime Narratives series, features punk rocker—turned—music teacher Sister Holiday, the only chain-smoking, tattooed, queer nun of the Sisters of the Sublime Blood in New Orleans, who tends to confiscate her students' cigarettes. M When Reverend Mother Aquinas's second cousin Mr. Robert Murphy opens a cigarette factory close to the convent in Cork, Ireland, she's eager to find jobs for some of her needy students. When the privy catches fire and a man inside dies of smoke inhalation, the fire brigade calls it arson.