Author Event! Margot Douaihy's Divine Ruin

Join us on June 6th from 6-7pm as we host Margot Douiahy, who will be reading and discussing her latest novel, Divine Ruin! Signed copies of the book are available for purchase.

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About the book:

INDIE NEXT Pick • Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick • A CrimeReads Best Crime Novel of January 2026

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, PhD, is a poet, crime writer, and assistant professor at Emerson College. She is the author of the lyrical hardboiled mysteries Scorched Grace and Blessed Water, both published with Gillian Flynn Books (a Zando imprint) and both named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times (2023 and 2024). The third mystery in her series, Divine Ruin, published in January 2026, and was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick and named a Best Debut of the Month by CrimeReads. Margot is an active member of the Radius of Arab-American Writers, the Queer Crime Writers, the Sisters in Crime, and the Mystery Writers of America. 

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