Historical Fiction
Pelagia and the Black Monk
2007·400 pages
A freckled Russian nun investigates ghostly sightings and murders at a remote island monastery in this atmospheric historical mystery.
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A freckled Russian nun investigates ghostly sightings and murders at a remote island monastery in this atmospheric historical mystery.
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Sister Pelagia, bespectacled, freckled, woefully clumsy and possessed of a not very nunnish aptitude for solving crimes, returns in a tale of monastic intrigue, murder and adventure. Just as the dust from the case of the White Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up once again by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks the help of the bishop, Mitrofanii. The monks have been troubled by visions of a dark, hooded figur...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Multiple murders and rising body count; some violent confrontations
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Nun protagonist; monastery, bishop, monks, and faith themes central
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Ghostly black monk apparitions and hauntings drive the central mystery
Political content
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Background of 19th-century Russian society and monastic economy
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Severe monastic penance; investigators meet violent fates
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