On August 23, 1907, Sister Janina waved good-bye to her priest,
who was headed out for an afternoon of fishing, and retired to her
convent cell to take a nap. She was never seen again. The young
Felician nun lived in Isadore, Michigan, a tiny town in the state's
sparsely populated Leelenau Peninsula. But that didn't stop her
case from making national waves.
More than 400 people from the area searched for her, but for
more than a decade her disappearance remained a mystery. Her fellow
nuns listed her as "lost" in their book of records, and so she
remained until an ambitious priest launched a campaign to build a
new church at Isadore. That's when her skeleton was found buried in
the dirt-floored basement of the old church, causing an uproar that
scandalized the small farming town.
Mardi Link's previous true-crime novel, "When Evil Came to Good
Hart, " focused on the 1968 murder of a wealthy Detroit area family
in their northern Michigan cabin. It was an instant success,
topping area best-seller lists and generating rave reviews
nationwide. This time Link turns her journalistic and detective
skills to a shocking story that remained buried for years.
"Isadore's Secret" has all the ingredients of a terrific
whodunit: a young woman murdered, the Catholic confessional, the
Michigan Supreme Court, bishops, doctors, priests, detectives,
lumbermen, a spy, and one diminutive Polish housekeeper. Many
details of the case have been kept secret even into the present
day, more than a century later . . . until now. The book gives
readers a historic and compelling yarn of sin, murder, and
confession, and its sometimes macabre and far-fetched nature makes
it all the more shocking that it is a true story, a work of
nonfiction.
Mardi Link is a freelance journalist and a founder of Michigan
Writers, a nonprofit support group for working writers. She is
cofounder and former executive editor of "ForeWord Magazine." In
2007, she was named Antioch's Betty Crumrine Scholar for Creative
Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Annie Dillard Creative
Nonfiction Award. This is her second book; her first, "When Evil
Came to Good Hart, " also published by the University of Michigan
Press, spent four months on the Heartland Indie Bestseller
List.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2009 |
First published: |
September 2009 |
Authors: |
Mardi Link
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-05079-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
0-472-05079-6 |
Barcode: |
9780472050796 |
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