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Olympia Brown Mystery
Olympia Brown Mystery
Series · 11 books · 2010-2017
By
Judith Campbell
Books in series
#0.5
A Twisted Mission
2015
At age fifty, Rev. Dr. Olympia Brown is at a turning point; shall she continue working as a College Professor or leave the Ivory Tower for good and become a Parish Minister. An invitation to serve as Summer Chaplain at a seaside conference center in Maine provides the ideal opportunity to get away and think things through—except it doesn’t. On the day she arrives a distraught (and closeted) crew members tries to hang himself. Despite the tragedy the conference center must open on schedule. Olympia Brown is called to minister to a ravaged community while trying to keep up the appearance of normalcy to the guests and visitors. Within days she begins to learn the story behind the tragedy of a shamed and bullied and desperate college student as well as the shamed and desperate bully who drove him to try to take his own life. Who can she tell? What can she do? When she finds herself in the middle, she calls on friend and clergy-colleague Fr. Jim Sawicki for advice but this turns out to be a serious mistake. Meanwhile there is someone hiding in the woods just outside the camp-ground who is obsessed with revenge.
#1
A Deadly Mission
2010
When College Chaplain, Olympia Brown, discovers one of her freshman is being recruited by a shadowy religious cult, she and colleague, Father Jim Sawicki, join forces to infiltrate the group and rescue the girl before she falls victim to a fatal so-called accident. Over the summer, while Olympia is restoring her haunted New England farmhouse, another student with connections to that same group dies in a suspicious drowning accident. Determined to learn more, Olympia persuades her son, Malcolm, to investigate a rally organized by these people. Unfortunately, he is discovered, and cult members go on a deadly offensive to protect their secrets and prevent further interference from Rev. Dr. Olympia Brown.
#2
An Unspeakable Mission
2011
When a vicious alcoholic dies in a suspicious house fire, Rev. Olympia Brown and Father Jim Sawicki stretch the boundaries of their religious vows to prove his death is accidental and not murder. But evidence to the contrary is mounting and the curious clerical twosome have little time to learn the truth and prevent the daughter that the man abused for years from ending her own life. Olympia and Jim confront unspeakable realities of incest, domestic violence and dark family secrets set against a tapestry of misconstrued Catholic dogma and the Irish culture of silence as the two colleagues struggle to untangle a hideous web of shame, guilt, and broken lives. And through all of this, Olympia continues with the restoration of her antique home in Southeastern Massachusetts. Miss Winslow, Olympia’s nosy and outspoken house-ghost, begins to reveal more of her own story. Olympia’s search for her lost daughter takes a curious turn. Frederick Watkins, Olympia’s gentleman friend from England is planning a purposeful return visit. And Father Jim Sawicki, Olympia’s partner in amateur sleuthing and best friend forever, struggles with issues from his own tragic past.
#3
A Despicable Mission
2012
It’s summer on the picture book island of Martha’s Vineyard. Olympia Brown is the summer minister, and she suspects that an elderly parishioner is the target of a nasty confidence operation. Much to the consternation of her colleague, Father Jim, and Frederick, her English gentleman, Olympia puts her own life in danger when she intervenes. Sparks fly, tempers flare, and Olympia ends up on the wrong side of a loaded gun. Fans of Campbell’s “Mission Mysteries” will love Olympia Brown’s latest adventure.
#4
An Unholy Mission
2012
Rev. Olympia Brown is serving as a chaplain in a Boston hospital when she finds a colleague in a compromising situation involving a patient. Things rapidly move from uncomfortable to unsafe, and Olympia ends up running for her life. Even Father Jim, her partner in sleuthing, and Frederick, Olympia's lovable Englishman, can't protect her from a murderous psychopath with an unholy mission.
#5
A Predatory Mission
2013
When the female minister and a young mother, both members of same church, disappear without warning, Olympia Brown is called to help. She soon suspects a connection between the missing women and the charismatic pastor from another church. With investigative assistance from her best friend, Father Jim, and support from her beloved Frederick, Olympia discovers the man has a long and well-concealed history of sexual misconduct. When he turns his attentions toward Olympia, she knows the only way to stop this insidious predator will be to catch him in the act, which could have deadly consequences for her.
#6
An Improper English Mission
2014
When Olympia Brown is invited to attend a religious conference in England, she soon discovers there is more than faith on the agenda. Someone on staff has a well-calculated plan to destroy The Moorlands, including the great stone house itself. Olympia discovers embezzlement, tainted food and a prescient housecat named Thomas, all of which eventually fit into a pattern-but not before she falls victim to a killer's twisted plot. With Father Jim in the States, Frederick must assist his lady wife in this page-turning tale of hatred and revenge. This title is published by Mainly Murder Press and is distributed worldwide by Untreed Reads.
#7
A Singular Mission
2014
No. 7 in the Olympia Brown Mysteries. Olympia accepts a winter contract in a picture-book church on Cape Cod, but someone in that idyllic setting is watching and waiting. When Olympia is trapped inside the old church along with her stalker in a killer New England blizzard, husband Frederick is too far away to help, and the police can’t reach her. Olympia becomes both the hunter and the hunted, and only she or the predator will survive the night.
#9
An Unseaworthy Mission
2015
No. 9 in the Olympia Brown Olympia Brown is offered free room and board on a small cruise ship in exchange for being a guest lecturer, but the dream-come-true turns into a nightmare when she learns an elegant and persuasive male passenger is targeting wealthy, single, gullible ladies for personal and heartbreaking gain. Olympia realizes that despite cruise companies’ best efforts, they can’t always keep their guests safe and happy, because for some of life’s miscreants a ship is a self-contained hunting ground where the unsuspecting prey are like fish in a barrel. Luckily for all, Olympia makes it her mission once again to set things right.
#10
The Mission that Rocked Olde Plimoth
2016
No. 10 in the Olympia Brown Mysteries. Plymouth, Massachusetts, America's home town, is shaken to its colonial core when Mayflower descendent and well-heeled member of the community, Thomas Bradford, is found dead in the wrong bed. As in any other town, there are secrets better left buried. But it isn't long when the Rev. Olympia Brown finds herself dead center in an unholy firestorm and trying to keep her balance on the horns of a curious ethical dilemma.
Author
Judith Campbell
Author · 14 books
#11
Christmas in Crisis
2017
An abused widow, a dead doctor and a suspicious stranger. Not exactly the stuff of a merry little Christmas…but a parish minister can’t really escape the holidays….or can she? Short Synopsis Olympia Brown is the interim minister in the exclusive town of Loring by the Sea…where a prominent doctor is about to be murdered. Shortly before Christmas, two very different people come to the church seeking refuge. One is the about-to-be widow and her twin daughters. The other, an undocumented man, living in the shadows of polite society. Both need help and sanctuary. Both will become suspects in the murder. Olympia battles history, tradition and the rule of law as she tries to season justice with mercy, seek truth and convince the church elders open their hearts and their doors as easily as they do their wallets.