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With a killer stalking the moors near their convent in Cornwall, Sister Joan must battle the forces of evil threatening the nuns, as well as the temptations elicited in her own heart by the cynical police officer on the case
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esting mystery with a startling finale." Booklist.
A Sister Joan Mystery.
Evil has crept into the peaceful lives of the Daughters of Compassion. At first there are only small signs of its presence. The docility of Sister Joan's pupils at the convent school. The disappearance of holy water and candles from the chapel. The midnight flight of a beautiful au pair from the home of one of Sister Joan's students.
But when a handsome adolescent boy inexplicably vanishes, Sister Joan knows that murder has come to her corner of Cornwall. And with it, an evil as old as the human race . . .
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A second story featuring impulsive, thirtysomething Sister Joan, a nun in the Order of the Daughters of Compassion, who lives in the Order's convent in the Cornwall countryside and teaches a small class of children from local farms and the nearby gypsy community, along with newcomer Samantha Olive, whose writer father has bought an old house in the area. Sister Joan is troubled by a string of small incidents centered on the convent chapel, where a crucifix has been moved, holy water has dried up, flowers and candles have disappeared. She's disturbed also by the strange lack of mischief among her young pupils. It all culminates in the discovery, in the chapel, of the poisoned body of Petroc Lee, a gypsy boy missing for several days. Keeping much pertinent information from Detective Sergeant Mill, Sister Joan embarks on her own investigation, eventually uncovering the particularly nasty (and unlikely) source of evil. Endless replays of the convent's daily routines and the less- than-credible plot weaken a sporadically interesting story, which lacks the cohesion of the series debut, Vow of Silence. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0312071124
- ISBN 13 9780312071127
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages191
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