Snow Globes and Hand Grenades: A Novel

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Eight long years of grade school and nuns is about to end in freedom. Graduation! But only if Mimi Maloney and her classmates Patrick and Tony can outsmart investigators who suspect, and rightly so, they’re guilty of the worst crime ever in parish history. Mimi Maloney, an average student who never gets in trouble, shows her genius in love and crime in this tale ofCatholic school kids enduring the last two weeks of eighth grade. Police and church investigators conspire to learnwho put the stolen snow globe paperweight in the hand of Mary on the church roof, and suspicion falls on Mimi'sclassmates, Patrick Cantwell and his best friend Tony. A comic panorama of parish life in the 1970s, when lying toget out of trouble was considered a sacred art form, because, after all, wasn’t President Nixon lying too? In thissuspenseful, laugh-filled sequel to Never Hug a Nun and Try to Kiss a Girl , award-winning author Kevin Killeen givesus a caper plot of flawed heroes and lovable villains that packs the comic blast of that old hand grenade dad broughthome from the war and that illustrates childish daydreams all too often have adult, real-life consequences.