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    Can I Get a Witness?: A Nosy Nuns Mystery (Volume 2)
    Can I Get a Witness?: A Nosy Nuns Mystery (Volume 2)
    Can I Get a Witness?: A Nosy Nuns Mystery (Volume 2)
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    Can I Get a Witness?: A Nosy Nuns Mystery (Volume 2)

    By Linda Rettstatt

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    When Racine Booker witnesses a brutal murder in an alley the night before Halloween, she is spirited away to the convent at Saint Malachi's. The sisters offer refuge until the murderer can be captured. Sisters Mary Jo Brunetto and Gabriel Schmidtzer—the Nosy Nuns—insert themselves into the investigation, putting everyone in the convent in danger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Rettstatt
    Release dateNov 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370051786
    Can I Get a Witness?: A Nosy Nuns Mystery (Volume 2)
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    Linda Rettstatt

    Linda Rettstatt is a best-selling and award-winning author of Women’s Fiction and Mainstream Contemporary Romance. In March of 2012 her novel, LOVE, SAM, won the prestigious EPIC eBook Award for Mainstream Fiction. And in April, 2016, LADIES IN WAITING won the EPIC eBook Award for Contemporary Fiction. Rettstatt grew up in the small town of Brownsville in Southwestern Pennsylvania. After 20 years living and working in Mississippi, she has returned to the hills of PA to write and work as an editor.

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      Can I Get a Witness? - Linda Rettstatt

      CAN I GET A WITNESS?

      ~ * ~

      A Nosy Nuns Mystery

      by

      Linda Rettstatt

      Can I Get A Witness?

      ~ * ~

      A Nosy Nuns Mystery

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2015, Linda Rettstatt

      3rd Act Books

      Cover Design – Linda Rettstatt

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      Warning: All rights reserved. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work, in whole or part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, is illegal and forbidden without the written permission of the author/publisher.

      This is a work of fiction. Characters, settings, names, and occurrences are a product of the author’s imagination and bear no resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, places or settings, and/or occurrences. Any incidences of resemblance are purely coincidental.

      Prologue

      I don’t know. Sister Catherine frowned. A Halloween party for the school sounds a bit like a pagan event.

      Oh, for Pete’s sake. Kids have been celebrating Halloween for centuries, Sister Gabriel muttered. Don’t be such a stick in the mud.

      I’m being a responsible adult. Someone has to teach these children good moral values. It’s my job, after all. They can have an All Saints Day party.

      "Oh, that sounds like fun. The day after Halloween. Sister Gabriel pushed away her empty dinner plate. Were you even a child at some point in time?"

      I won’t honor that with a response. To Sister Stephanie she said, They can have a Halloween party, but my one rule is that every child comes dressed as their favorite saint. I won’t have those hideous horror masks and bloody costumes in my school.

      "Your school?" Sister Gabriel asked.

      "I’m the Principal now. So, yes, it’s my school." Sister Catherine picked up her plate and strode purposefully to the kitchen.

      Guess she put me in my place, Sister Gabriel said. So, maybe I’ll go as Saint Catherine and shove a stick up my….

      Gabby, let it go, M.J. cautioned. I think having a Halloween celebration for the kids in the school is a great idea, Stephanie. They’re much safer here than roaming the streets and possibly collecting candy filled with needles. She shook her head. You have to wonder what this world is coming to.

      Gabby snorted. A miserable end, if you ask Saint Cate. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to that party and I’m not wearing a bed sheet and sandals like some ancient saint. You planning to attend, M.J.?

      I’m off work, so I suppose I will. I don’t know, my brothers use to torment me on Halloween and it still creeps me out a little. I always think bad things are going to happen.

      Chapter One

      Racine turned the corner from Smithfield Street to Strawberry Way, leaving the sea of revelers still celebrating Pittsburgh’s Halloween Parade. She had enjoyed the evening with her new friends as she embraced this new life. Not everyone got a second chance and Racine was grateful for the one she had received, largely through the determination of Sister Mary Jo Brunetto. Sister M.J. believed in Racine, probably more than Racine believed in herself. The nun had helped her clean up her act, get out of the life as a prostitute, and had gotten her a job. The pay for a week was less than what her former life offered in one night,

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