Death in the Choir
Author: Lorraine V. MurrayPublisher: Tumblar House
Publication Date: July 1, 2009
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
9780979160073
Book 1 of the Francesca Bibbo Series
Francesca Bibbo is eager to jumpstart her social life, so she joins the choir at St. Rita's. There, she discovers that the director and the pastor are locking horns over a decrepit organ, while the sopranos are vying for solos. After a rehearsal party, things go very wrong, and when someone shows up dead, the police rule the death a suicide. But Francesca suspects foul play, so she begins prying into the dead man's past. Before long, she uncovers shocking and sinister facts about the choir members.
There's a lot of light chatter with jokes and double entendres. For example when one woman is describing the physique of another, she says "Her cup definitely overfloweth."
There's chatter and speculation over whether a character is homosexual or heterosexual.
A priest loathes a certain woman who goes to confession because she goes into detail when it comes to her sexual sins. He nicknames her Lady Chatterley. Nothing graphic is mentioned. All we know is the priest's complaint.
Violence & Gore: None Profanity: None Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: NoneNOTE: This guide may be incomplete.
Lorraine V. Murray is a free-lance writer living in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband, Jef, and a hamster named Ignatius. She works part-time in the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University. A columnist with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she is the author of six other books. Lorraine's latest work of fiction is Death Dons a Mask a wild and wacky romp through a small Georgia parish that is perpetually plagued by crimes and misdemeanors. This is the third book in the laugh-out-loud Francesca Bibbo series, which also includes Death in the Choir and Death of a Liturgist. Her most recent nonfiction is a biography of Flannery O'Connor, which is titled The Abbess of Andalusia. Lorraine has written about her conversion story in Confessions of an Ex-Feminist.