It's hard not to feel like audiences are so hungry for crime that they don't care if it's edited or particularly good. Margot Douaihy is on to a winner with her lead character - although, really, what mystery isn't solved by a queer nun these days? - but the crime that she's constructed around her isn't up to much.

Scorched Grace is a standout because it's the first book published by Gillian Flynn's new imprint (maybe a conflict of interest for her to have the blurb, then), but realistically it's a step above a self-published piece put out on Kindle Unlimited (some of those are good, don't worry). "On route", "nervous tick", and disagreement between "diffused" and "defused" are among the least of the book's problems, but they're the easiest to note.

The tortured history that led to Sister Holiday becoming a nun is extreme, and the conclusion is supremely unsatisfying: both the solution of the crime and the punishment meted out. It's the sort of book that the more you reflect on, the worse it gets. And yet I'd read another - but this one's been downgraded from a 3 star 2.5 to a 2 star 2.5.

(Goodreads in 2023!)