rachelirvine08's review
3.0
Interesting story
It is a fascinating mystery. The verdict doesn't seem to be as cut and dried as I originally thought it was.
It is a fascinating mystery. The verdict doesn't seem to be as cut and dried as I originally thought it was.
13iscute's review
3.0
Book Riot Read Harder 2019:
#5 A book by a journalist or about journalism
#9 A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2019:
#9 A book you meant to read in 2018
#50 A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent
My mom asked me to read this book after she and her friends all read it, so we can take a girls' trip up to Isadore this summer and see where it all happened.
Good, informative book on a really interesting and obscure topic.
Sister Mary Janina was an orphan who became a nun in the Catholic Church.
She was sent to Isadore, where she taught for about a year before she mysteriously disappeared in 1907.
There was a massive search effort for her, lead by Father Andrew, but eventually it died down.
A decade later, Isadore's new priest, Father Edward, hears rumors that Sister Mary Janina was murdered and buried in the basement of the church.
Father Edward and the sexton dig up bones in the basement and rebury them in the cemetery. The dirt caves in on the new grave and they are found.
Stella, the housekeeper at Isadore during the time when Sister Mary Janina disappeared, was accused of the crime and arrested. Supposedly she confessed to the priest in Milwaukee when she went to visit her daughter. Word got around the Catholic Church and back to Isadore.
Stella claimed she was tortured in jail by the sheriff and a undercover detective he hired. She started acting crazy and she was sent to the mental hospital in Ann Arbor, but was deemed sane.
Stella was convicted in court in Leelanau County and was sentenced to life in a woman's prison in Detroit with hard labor.
Father Andrew continued fighting for her freedom. Her appeal was denied by the Michigan Supreme Court, but after seven years in prison, the outgoing governor paroled her as her last official act.
Stella moved to Wisconsin to be with her daughter and son-in-law. She worked more than 20 years as a cook at a local Catholic Church, and died at the age of 92.
#5 A book by a journalist or about journalism
#9 A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2019:
#9 A book you meant to read in 2018
#50 A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent
My mom asked me to read this book after she and her friends all read it, so we can take a girls' trip up to Isadore this summer and see where it all happened.
Good, informative book on a really interesting and obscure topic.
Spoiler
Sister Mary Janina was an orphan who became a nun in the Catholic Church.
She was sent to Isadore, where she taught for about a year before she mysteriously disappeared in 1907.
There was a massive search effort for her, lead by Father Andrew, but eventually it died down.
A decade later, Isadore's new priest, Father Edward, hears rumors that Sister Mary Janina was murdered and buried in the basement of the church.
Father Edward and the sexton dig up bones in the basement and rebury them in the cemetery. The dirt caves in on the new grave and they are found.
Stella, the housekeeper at Isadore during the time when Sister Mary Janina disappeared, was accused of the crime and arrested. Supposedly she confessed to the priest in Milwaukee when she went to visit her daughter. Word got around the Catholic Church and back to Isadore.
Stella claimed she was tortured in jail by the sheriff and a undercover detective he hired. She started acting crazy and she was sent to the mental hospital in Ann Arbor, but was deemed sane.
Stella was convicted in court in Leelanau County and was sentenced to life in a woman's prison in Detroit with hard labor.
Father Andrew continued fighting for her freedom. Her appeal was denied by the Michigan Supreme Court, but after seven years in prison, the outgoing governor paroled her as her last official act.
Stella moved to Wisconsin to be with her daughter and son-in-law. She worked more than 20 years as a cook at a local Catholic Church, and died at the age of 92.
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