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Jul 17, 2024 | 
booktrib.com | Margot Douaihy
In the ever-evolving landscape of mysteries and thrillers, queer authors are bringing vital perspectives, narratological experimentation, and nuanced takes on criminality and justice. LGBTQ writers are crafting stories shaped by their lived experiences of chosen family, otherness, and code-switching. Queering crime fiction interrogates tropes and tests genre boundaries. Serving up plot twists and mayhem—with a side of slay.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thebigthrill.org | Margot Douaihy |n Gigl
By Margot DouaihyIn the ever-evolving landscape of mysteries and thrillers, queer authors are bringing vital perspectives, narratological experimentation, and nuanced takes on criminality and justice. LGBTQ writers are crafting stories shaped by their lived experiences of chosen family, otherness, and code-switching. Queering crime fiction interrogates tropes and tests genre boundaries. Serving up plot twists and mayhem—with a side of slay.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
novelsuspects.com | Margot Douaihy
In her seminal essay “Notes on ‘Camp,'” Susan Sontag explores the essence of Camp as a sensibility of artifice, high style, and theatricality, elements that form a mode of speculation and offer a nuanced commentary on society. High camp revels in excess; it turns the mundane into the spectacular. It can serve as a vital mirror to the contradictions and complexities of social mores and cultural “norms.” It’s also really fun.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
harvard.com | Margot Douaihy
Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes MARGOT DOUAIHY—Assistant Professor in Popular Fiction Writing & Literature at Emerson College author of Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery—for a discussion of her highly anticipated follow-up novel Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery. She will be joined in conversation by KIRSTEN IMANI KASAI—author of The House of Erzulie, Ice...
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Margot Douaihy
In the labyrinthine world of crime fiction, few elements stir the plot’s pot as effectively as sibling bonds. The mercurial relationships between sisters and brothers carry lifetimes of camaraderie, shorthand, grudges, tiny triumphs, and shared histories. They can be crucibles for narrative tension and foundations for epic plot twists.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Rob Osler |Margot Douaihy |Kellye Garrett
A tatted, gold-toothed Catholic nun without a filter who solves crimes? Yes, please! Thank you, Margot Douaihy, for conjuring a devilishly entertaining amateur sleuth with an almighty irreverence for playing by the rules. I love this book for its quirky-and-them-some cast of characters, smart and sassy dialogue, and clever plot that unfolded to keep me at the edge of the pew. Praise be that Sister Holiday (the book’s hero) is fronting a series! I am hooked!Why should I read it?
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Margot Douaihy |Jahmal Mayfield |Lizzie Pook |Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Douaihy follows up Scorched Grace with another deliriously enjoyable, relentlessly plotted adventure for chain-smoking “punk nun” Sister Holiday Walsh. Sister Holiday spends her days teaching music at Saint Sebastian’s School in New Orleans, and her nights operating the newly established Redemption Detective Agency alongside former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux. After a potential client stands the women up for a consultation, they stumble on a priest’s corpse floating in the Mississippi River.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Margot Douaihy |Melissa Florer-Bixler |Ross Allen |Peter W. Marty
There are two main characters in Scorched Grace: Sister Holiday Walsh—who makes a lot of her belief that she’s the first punk nun with a past—and the heat, whether from the fire that ravages St. Sebastian, the Catholic school where she teaches guitar as a Sister of the Sublime Blood, or the subtropical steam of the city of New Orleans. Having lived there, I can affirm that this heat, especially in summer, is every bit as oppressive, stultifying, and hallucinatory as Margot Douaihy renders it.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Margot Douaihy
Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove in this fast-paced, blistering follow-up to Scorched Grace. Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
emporiagazette.com | Margot Douaihy |Molly Chenault |Gillian Flynn Books
Review by Molly Chenault“Scorched Grace” by Margot Douaihy, Gillian Flynn Books, 2023, $27.95. When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn’t satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself.
