Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel : A Novel (Sister Pelagia)

In the wake of a messianic Jewish sect leader's murder aboard a steamer bound for Jerusalem, Sister Pelagia discovers that the victim was set up as a decoy while the real target tries to evade enemies, a situation that prompts her investigation throughout the Russian forests and Jerusalem's most holy sites. By the author of Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog. Original.