Your Top Rabbi, Monk, Friar, Pastor, Nun or Priest Sleuth Nominations

[Almeta]

In the quest to save a soul, clerics look for solutions to mysteries, if only to get the person to come to terms with their sins.

[Almeta]

Ellis Peters pseudonym of Edith Pargeter in A Morbid Taste for Bones presents us with Brother Cadfael, who has given up a rousing secular life as a soldier and sailor for a quiet spiritual one as a Benedictine monk. Yet in these historically faithful stories, he always finds trouble with the medieval feudal system or his monastic brethren and the townsfolk.

[Almeta]

G.K. Chesterton's “Father Brown” mystery series. The Complete Father Brown

[Terri]

I really enjoy the Dame Frevisse series by Margaret Frazier

[Almeta]

Terri wrote: "I really enjoy the Dame Frevisse series by Margaret Frazier"

The Novice's Tale by Margaret Frazer is the first in the Sister Frevisse series.

[Almeta]

Andrew M. Greeley's Father Blackie Ryan series starts with Happy Are the Meek.

[Jane]

The Harry Kemelman Rabbi Small series starting with Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

[MissJessie]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Simon Brett's Mrs. Pargeter series is really one of my favorites. Also quite good is his Feathering series, featuring a female lead who solves mysteries while having middle-aged angst.