Although I'd never heard of ISADORE'S SECRET, it's been around since 2009. I was curious about this nonfiction story that takes place in Michigan and involves priests, nuns, and a Catholic community. So I read it and found that Mardi Link did a great job, not only satisfying my curiosity but also writing a well-researched story that will interest any true-crime fan from any state or religion.

This is a story about a nun who went missing in the early 1900s in the small community of Isadore, Michigan, in the northern Lower Peninsula. There were rumors about what happened to her, but no one knew for sure. Years later a priest and sexton found bones buried in the dirt floor of the basement of Isadore's Catholic church. They were suspected to be the missing nun's. And the cook at the rectory was suspected of murdering her.

That is a simple way of putting it. But it's a convoluted story involving more suspicious characters, including priests and pregnant nuns, priests and bishops who might not have kept a confession secret, a sheriff who used unfair means of getting a confession, a possibly unfair trial, and a possibly innocent cook.

Link deserves more credit for ISADORE'S SECRET than she got. I'm glad I finally read it.