Sister Caravaggio - Softcover

Binchy, Maeve; Donnelly, Neil; Millar, Cormac; Ni Duibhne, Éilis; O'Donnell, Mary; Sheridan, Peter; Cunningham, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909718416 ISBN 13: 9781909718418

Publisher: Liberties Press, 2015

Synopsis

The small Caravaggio which hangs in the chapel of Doon Abbey in Kildare attracts visitors to the abbey from far and wide. One night, however, the painting disappears. The Sister Superior is unwilling to cooperate with the police, as this would compromise the abbey’s silent-order ethos. Alice Dunwoody, a novitiate at the abbey who heard strange sounds on the night of the theft, persuades Sister Mercy Superior to allow her to investigate, with the help of the abbey’s computer-savvy librarian, Sister Mary Magdalene. As the nuns try to track down the painting, the list of possible suspects – and the body count – multiplies.

About this title

About the Author

NEIL DONNELLY is an award-winning playwright. He has written plays for the theatre, including the Abbey Theatre and the Gaiety Theatre, for radio, including for RTÉ and the BBC, and for the screen.

CORMAC MILLAR is a crime writer, literary translator and academic writer. His novels are An Irish Solution (2004) and The Grounds (2006).

ÉILIS NI DUIBHNE is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer and playwright in both English and Irish. Her novel The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction.

Mary O’Donnell is one of Ireland’s best known contemporary authors. Her seven poetry collections include 'Spiderwoman’s Third Avenue Rhapsody', 'Unlegendary Heroes', both with Salmon Poetry, and 'Those April Fevers' (Ark Publications). Her poetry is available in Hungarian as Csodak földje with the publisher Irodalmí Jelen Könyvek. Fiction includes the novels 'The Light Makers' (reissued in 2017 with 451 Editions), 'The Elysium Testament' and 'Where They Lie'. A volume of essays on her work, 'Giving Shape to the Moment: The Art of Mary O’Donnell', was published in 2018 (Peter Lang). Her third short story collection, 'Empire', was published by Arlen House in 2018. An essay, “My Mother in Drumlin Country”, published in New Hibernia Review during 2017, was listed among the Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2017 in Best American Essays (Mariner). She is a regular invited guest at literary festivals and events both in Ireland and internationally. An elected member of Aosdana, Ireland’s affiliation of artists, she lives in County Kildare.

PETER SHERIDAN is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. His memoir 44: A Dublin Memoir was nominated for an Irish Times Literature Prize.

PETER CUNNINGHAM is an award-winning novelist and columnist. He is best known for his historical novels, including The Sea and the Silence (2010), and The Taoiseach (2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Liberties Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909718416
• ISBN 13: 9781909718418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256