Lentorama 2024: Clerical Crime Solvers

Day 33: Rev. Lily Connor

Lily Connor is what's known as a "tentmaker," a priest who specializes in filling in when a parish is between permanent priests. She's home in Texas, where she had been helping care for her father, who recently died from cancer. A friend calls asking if she'll take a temporary assignment in the Boston area - their priest died of a heart attack - and she accepts the job. Only problem is that when she gets to the parish, she begins to suspect that his death wasn't what is seemed.

The Lily Connor trilogy was written by Michelle Blake, who was on the path to becoming an Episcopal priest herself but opted for writing as a career. She is primarily an essayist and poet, with these books being her only published prose works.