I picked up Lost and Found In Prague, by Kelly Jones, because I have been in Prague. It did not disappoint.

Dana Pierson receives a frantic note from her cousin Caroline, a Carmelite nun in Prague, that she needs Dana’s help. Dana and Caroline had gone to Prague some twenty years previously, arriving during the Velvet Revolution when the then named Czechoslovakia separated from Communist Russia. Dana had gone home but Caroline remained, having fallen in love with a Czech.

When she arrives, Dana has trouble meeting with Caroline. An old nun has died in the church and the nunnery is closed to outsiders. At the same time a priest, Giovanni Borelli arrives at the request of the church’s priest. They form a duo of sorts to investigate not only the nun’s death but the disappearance of the Infant of Prague. The local detective Damcek, who is investigating the assassination of a senator, becomes an unlikely ally.

The mystery becomes more intricate than I expected, involving a long ago murder, blackmail, political chicanery and more as well as the death of the nun and the disappearance of the religious artifact.And yes, Dana goes to many of the places I visited while in Prague.

Recommended.