Divine Ruin, Margot Douaihy
Divine Ruin, Margot Douaihy
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Divine Ruin

Author: Margot Douaihy

Narrator: Mara Wilson

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2026


Synopsis

In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a “hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred.” (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines)

“Divine Ruin is fearlessly inspired.” (Gillian Flynn)

It’s a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is finishing her music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in her journey of faith. But when one of her favorite students is found dead of a fentanyl overdose, Sister Holiday and her partner-in-PI, Magnolia Riveaux, are determined to track down the drug dealers. As students continue to fall prey tothis sinister drug, Sister Holiday becomes more desperate to stop the epidemic—while facing her own past with addiction, a demon that is never too far.

With Douaihy’s signature mix of grit, heart, and faith, Divine Ruin tests the limits of Sister Holiday’s devotion in her darkest and most shocking case yet.

About The Author

Margot Douaihy lives in Northampton, MA, and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. She is the author of the award-winning, nationally bestselling Sister Holiday series, in addition to the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. Her debut mystery, Scorched Grace, won The Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction and was named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by the New York Times, Guardian, and others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on August 14, 2025

If sister Holiday has million fans, then I'm one of them. If sister holiday has one fan, then I'm THAT ONE. If sister holiday has no fans, that means I'm dead The TWISTS!!! The prose!!!! The YEARNING. The Drugs. The BonTon!!!!! Everyone should be reading this series. It’s maturing like a fine wine. Than......more

Goodreads review by Paige on January 20, 2026

Another outing with my favorite sleuth, Sister Holiday. These mysteriess are much darker than that sentence would suggest, and I really enjoy them......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on January 13, 2026

Not sure it was my fav of the series but I still enjoyed this third cozy mystery set in New Orleans following amateur detective and queer nun, Sister Holiday. She's flawed and funny, has a crush on her coworker and gets caught up trying to solve who's behind supplying fentanyl to one of her students......more

Goodreads review by Robin on October 15, 2025

It's the last couple of weeks of the school term, and Sister Holiday is preoccupied with preparing for her final vows, when one of her students dies of a fentanyl overdose at school. Devastated and passionately determined to find out where the drug came from and protect her students, Holiday enlists......more

Goodreads review by boogleloo on January 16, 2026

3/5 stars: This is Douaihy's third entry in the Sister Holiday Mystery series, which is a 2SLGBTQIA+ Crime Mystery that takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Featuring a very unique nun, she's tattooed, sports a gold tooth, smokes and is an apprentice PI to a former fire inspector all without missi......more