This book is well writen, well put together, and genuinely enjoyable reading. I was not able to put it down, with one unique plot twist after another. I highly recomend this book.

this is an excellent book, set in Miami, very entertaining and exciting

This is a story of connected events which involves life and death situations in a world of blackmail, drugs and big money. In this corrupting world people begin to owe others but sometimes the price becomes their own life. When you get involved in criminal activities like these you pay a high price. The author Winona Sullivan has very well coincided two plots in one story. This mystery is a vow of chastity, a vow of sanctity and a vow of silence.

After I read A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe and Dead South, I wasn't sure if I'd bother to read Death's a Beach. I wasn't crazy about the first two books in the Sister Cecile series. However, this is the best of the three books. Good characters. Interesting situations. Held my interest all the way through.

I have just encountered another woman detective, in Death's a Beach. Author Winona Sullivan follows her P.I. nun into her second [and not last, I hope] case, where she is operating from a home for senior nuns and other seniors. The scenes and action come alive, showing the Everglades, Miami Beach, the gangsters, a sympathetic Miccosukee policeman, and another not-so-honest policeman. I was particularly drawn to the teenage ward of Sister Cecile and Jim Cypress, the Miccosukee 'good-cop.' The relationships and mutual understanding among the likeable and not-likeable characters were skillfully developed.

Winona Sullivan hooked me with A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe, and kept me interested as Cecile and the nuns headed south. I enjoyed Saving Death in particular because this novel provided some backstory about Cecile's youth and her relationship with Paul - though it was not important to the meat of the mystery, I liked it nonetheless. I'm comfortable with these characters and I enjoyed learning more about them.

Cecile's assignment is to solve a twenty-year-old murder where many of the people involved are either dead or unwilling to talk. Her client, unknown to her, was the man wrongly convicted of the crime, and though he changes his mind at one point Cecile is determined to find closure to this case, before the true killer gets to her first. All in all an enjoyable read.

This book weaves a number of subplots together as an innocent man covicted of murder escapes after serving 20 years. He attempts to find the real murderer by hiring a P.I., who just happens to also be a nun, and the plot thickens as you are taken through the Latin community in Miami, Florida with a great amount of picturesque background. The story is well written and reads quickly. Through most of it, you don't want to put it down.