Carol Anne O'Marie

Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, C.S.J., (August 28, 1933 – May 27, 2009) was a Roman Catholic sister in the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was also renowned as a mystery writer.[1]

Carol Anne O'Marie
Personal
Born(1933-08-28)28 August 1933
Died27 May 2009(2009-05-27) (aged 75)
ReligionRoman Catholic
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
OrderReligious Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Senior posting
ProfessionWriter

She wrote eleven novels, whose protagonist is Sister Mary Helen, an elderly sister who solves crimes. Most of the books are based in San Francisco, California, where O'Marie was born. Sister Carol Anne also ran a shelter for homeless women with Sister Maureen Lyons in Oakland, California.[2]

She died, aged 75, from Parkinson's disease on May 27, 2009.[3]

Sister Carol Anne wrote "Like a Swarm of Bees", published by Graphic Visions in 2010. She finished the manuscript shortly before her death. It was written to recall a prophecy and a promise spoken in 1805 by the Abbé Piron of Saint-Étienne, France, by which he foretold that the Sisters of St. Joseph would increase in number and "like a swarm of bees" spread everywhere.[4]

Bibliography

Sister Mary Helen Mysteries[5]

  • Novena for Murder (Book 1), 1984
  • Advent of Dying (Book 2), 1986
  • The Missing Madonna (Book 3), 1988
  • Murder in Ordinary Time (Book 4), 1991
  • Murder Makes a Pilgrimage (Book 5), 1993
  • Death Goes on Retreat (Book 6), 1995
  • Death of an Angel (Book 7), 1997
  • Death Takes Up a Collection (Book 8), 1998
  • Requiem at the Refuge (Book 9), 2000
  • The Corporal Works of Murder (Book 10), 2002
  • Murder at the Monks' Table (Book 11), 2006

References
  1. "Sister Carol Anne O'Marie". www.fantasticfiction.com.
  2. Third Age.com Archived March 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Services Monday for Bay Area nun, mystery novelist". May 30, 2009.
  4. "Carondolet Artists". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
  5. "Sister Mary Helen (Sister Carol Anne O'Marie)". www.detecs.org.
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