A missing body, a ghostly nun, a heretical play . . . Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet investigates a mystery where nothing is as it first appears.
Taking a shortcut home beneath the ruined abbey in the centre of the city, a teenage girl reports stumbling across a body. She also claims to have seen a mysterious nun-like figure watching her from the shadows. But during the subsequent search, no body is found.
The girl's inebriated state and her troubled history make the police sceptical, and only Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet is inclined to believe her. Then a woman is reported missing, and Joe finds himself caught up in a complex investigation involving a production of The Devils at the local Playhouse. Could the play, with its shocking religious and sexual violence, have something to do with the woman's disappearance? Nothing is as it first appears.
- ISBN10 1780106432
- ISBN13 9781780106434
- Publish Date 1 July 2015 (first published 27 March 2015)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 16 November 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Severn House
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 224
- Language English