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"Sister Joan remains the most refreshing and likeable of the genre's nun-sleuths." - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY From the author of A VOW OF SILENCE. Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion enjoys teaching in the school high on the Cornish moors. But beneath the surface ugliness is stirring and Sister Joan is drawn into a conflict, a conflict that is mirrored within herself as old desires rise up in her to battle with her hard-won chastity. Temptation in the shape of a cynical police officer presents itself, becoming almost as great a danger as the killer who stalks the moors.
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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 . . .
From Kirkus Reviews:
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 . . .
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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- PublisherLinford Mystery
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0708972624
- ISBN 13 9780708972625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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