Lee Harris

Good Friday Murder (Christine Bennett Mysteries)

Murder spoils the holiday for the nuns at St. Stephen’s Covenant. . . . It’s a snowy Christmas at St. Stephen’s Convent, where a cheerful party awaits an old friend and former confessor, Father Hudson McCormick. But he never reaches his destination. Christine Bennett, a former St. Stephen’s nun, arrives to investigate the disappearance. But the nuns are mum until an old scandal involving the priest and a St. Stephen’s novice rears its ugly head. Has Father McCormick, unable to face the scene of his sins, gone underground? Or has someone taken belated revenge, ensuring that the truth will never be known?

The Christmas Night Murder

Voices from the Past

When three old friends disappear on Valentine's Day, two are later discovered murdered and the third, still missing, is accused, prompting his desperate wife to appeal to ex-nun-turned-investigator Christine Bennet for help. Original.

The Valentine's Day Murder

Fifteen years after Iris Grodnik's strange disappearance and murder during a Passover seder, her relatives ask former nun Christine Bennett--now married to a New York City cop--to make a last attempt to discover the truth. Original.

The Passover Murder

During a sightseeing trip to Arizona, Christine Bennett is reunited with the mother of a former high-school classmate, Heinz Gruner, who had died while hiking Picacho Peak twenty years earlier, only to discover that, despite police claims that the death had been an accident, his mother firmly believes that the young man had been murdered and asks Christine to investigate. Original.

The Cinco de Mayo Murder

While going through her late aunt's belongings, suburban sleuth Christine Bennett stumbles upon the bizarre mementos of two mysterious deaths--that of a young man lost in the Connecticut woods, the other of a wealthy manufacturer who committed suicide after his fiftieth birthday party--a mystery complicated by the discovery that the two victims had been found wearing each other's sneakers. Original.

The Happy Birthday Murder

When Mr. Herskovitz, the lonely widower she had been helping, is found murdered in his apartment, ex-nun Chris Bennett is determined to find the killer. Original.

The Yom Kippur Murder

A mysterious telephone call about a murder sends the local police and Christine Bennett to a nearby apartment whose tenants have mysteriously vanished, leaving behind a phone and a trace of blood on the carpet, a discovery that sends Christine on a search for the missing couple, following a trail that leads to twenty-five-year-old secrets and a relentless killer. Original.

The Silver Anniversary Murder

Delighted to be given the opportunity for a much-anticipated trip to the Holy Land, suburban sleuth Christine Bennett comes to the aid of her best friend, Melanie Gross, who is in Jerusalem to attend the bar mitzvah of her wealthy cousin, Gabe, but the festivities are interrupted by Gabe's mysterious disappearance and by murder. Original.

The Bar Mitzvah Murder

After faking his own murder as part of an April Fool's Day stunt, Willard Platt suddenly becomes the victim of an all-too-real homicide, and former nun-turned-sleuth Christine Bennett becomes embroiled in the dark secrets and violent passions that hid behind Willard's family's respectable suburban facade. Original.

The April Fools' Day Murder

Attending the christening of her friend's baby in her old childhood home, former nun Christine Bennett stumbles upon the skeletal remains of a body--the grim result of a thirty-year-old murder. Reprint.

The Christening Day Murder

Former nun Chris Bennett and her police-detective boyfriend investigate the St. Patrick's Day shooting death of model police officer Scotty McVeigh, trying to link it to the deaths of other off-duty cops. Original.

The St. Patrick's Day Murder

Nun-turned-private eye Christine Bennett must untangle forty years' worth of lies, crime, and adultery in order to expose the killer lurking among a group of middle-aged men who reunite to celebrate each Father's Day. Original.

The Father's Day Murder

The New Year's Eve Murder

The party’s over . . . On December 30th, Susan Stark was dropped off in front of her parents’ house. She hasn't been heard from since. Not a good scenario, especially in New York. Former nun (now crime investigator) Christine Bennett fears the worst. Armed with only a few phone numbers and a photo of Susan, she steps into the missing girl's life—and meets a Susan that neither her parents nor her boyfriend knew existed . . . with strange obsessions and a secret life that may have lured her to a deadly end.

A Christine Bennett Mystery

New Year's Eve Murder

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Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish....They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the enemy. "That, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn't done enough for yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part -- something that we could correct.... "Our first task is therefore to try to grasp what the concept of the enemy really means. The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason, and not ours." So begins Civilization and Its Enemies, an extraordinary tour de force by America's "reigning philosopher of 9/11," Lee Harris. What Francis Fukuyama did for the end of the Cold War, Lee Harris has now done for the next great conflict: the war between the civilized world and the international terrorists who wish to destroy it. Each major turning point in our history has produced one great thinker who has been able to step back from petty disagreements and see the bigger picture -- and Lee Harris has emerged as that man for our time. He is the one who has helped make sense of the terrorists' fantasies and who forces us most strongly to confront the fact that our enemy -- for the first time in centuries -- refuses to play by any of our rules, or to think in any of our categories. We are all naturally reluctant to face a true enemy. Most of us cannot give up the myth that tolerance is the greatest of virtues and that we can somehow convert the enemy to our beliefs. Yet, as Harris's brilliant tour through the stages of civilization demonstrates, from Sparta to the French Revolution to the present, civilization depends upon brute force, properly wielded by a sovereign. Today, only America can play the role of sovereign on the world stage, by the use of force when necessary. Lee Harris's articles have been hailed by thinkers from across the spectrum. His message is an enduring one that will change the way readers think -- about the war with Iraq, about terrorism, and about our future.

The Next Stage of History

Civilization and Its Enemies

“Lee Harris, author of the beloved Christine Bennett holiday mystery series, gives us a new detective and a grittier neighborhood in Murder in Hell’s Kitchen, but her storytelling skill remains top quality.”—Tony Hillerman After twenty years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads in her personal life, Jane relishes the chance to lose herself in a challenging investigation. Four years ago, Arlen Quill was found dead in the entryway to his apartment building—leaving no clues, no witnesses, and no leads. When Jane decides to interview Quill’s old neighbors, she makes a startling discovery: Every single occupant at the time of the murder subsequently disappeared. Like any seasoned New Yorker, Jane knows that mere homicide isn’t enough to drive people from their rent-controlled apartments. In Hell’s Kitchen—where a cold case suddenly heats up—Jane soon finds herself face-to-face with a killer. . . . “Lee Harris heads off in an exciting new direction with Murder in Hell’s Kitchen—a page-turner of a police procedural, in which a cold case turns hot and the suspense builds and builds. Detective Jane Bauer is a most welcome addition to the ranks of fictional cops.”—Peter Robinson

Murder in Hell's Kitchen

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