101 ways to kill someone in a convent

Okay, so I actually only managed to come up with 16 (plus a few I can’t mention, because they’re already in play and I wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise), but here are some of the ways I’ve contemplated killing the characters in my NaNo novel, The Case of the Cunning Linguist, which is set in and around Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris:

Choking on communion wafers
Poisoned by communion wine
Stabbed with crucifix
Burned with holy water (only works for vampires or other demons)
Struck by god’s wrath (i.e. lightning) during a storm
Strangled by a rosary
Whipped to death (self flagellation, or as punishment by another)
Falling from a bell tower
Crushed beneath pipe organ pipes
Cleaved in two by stained glass windows breaking out
Drugged by a fellow priest or nun for committing a Deadly Sin
Scorched by the flames of all those votive candles
Bashed over the head with the altar’s ornate gold-encrusted Bible
Drowned in a baptismal fount
Lead poisoning over years of sipping too much wine from the old-school chalices
Nailed to the cross in a disturbingly realistic reenactment of the Stations of the Cross

Got another bright idea for deaths that would be unique to a convent or church? Let me know in the comments!

 

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