"An arresting 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 a...
Sister Joan has gone on a retreat to Loch Morag in Scotland. The retreat consists of a cave up a steep hill but it is peaceful and she is made welcome by the monks of the nearby monastery and is ferried across the Loch to the monastery by the engaging Brother Cuthbert. Sister Joan wants to make...
"Outstanding." Publishers Weekly A Sister Joan Mystery. The sisters at lonely Cornwall Convent share chilling secrets they cannot confess . . . Sister Sophia is dead. Sister Magdalen has vanished. Sister Joan, newly transferred to the convent to investigate its mysterious troubles, begins to sus...
Sister Joan has just returned from a retreat in Scotland when she hears that the small school which she runs is to be closed. She makes a sentimental pilgrimage to the school building and finds the body of a young girl dressed as a bride pushed into a cupboard. Shortly afterwards another young ...
The rain itself had ceased and a faint amber sun showed fitfully between the still louring clouds. She had slept deeply without dreaming, which proved, she thought ironically, that sound slumber wasn’t always a sign of an easy conscience. It had been her duty to inform Inspector Mackintosh about ...
‘Of course, Mother. When is it to be?’ She sounded like a French aristocrat enquiring when the guillotine would be set up. ‘It’s really a painless process, Sister,’ Sister Joan soothed. ‘Mother Dorothy, may we stay for coffee if it’s offered?’ ‘I have been thinking that as...
Raising indignant blue eyes she met his considering gaze and repressed the reply on the tip of her tongue. ‘Sister Joan went down to find out why Sister Margaret had not rung the rising bell,’ the prioress said coldly. ‘At a quarter past five?’ He c...