Sister Joan Mysteries
2 primary works • 9 total works
Book 9
Book 10
With her friends Brother Cuthbert and DS Ala n Mill both away, Sister Joan must rely on her own wits when she finds a body in an abandoned chapel on the moors near h er convent. But in the course of her investigations she risk s her own life. '
Again, Sister Joan must solve a crime with h elp from a detective and try to balance the demands of justi ce with her spiritual life in the enclosure of her fellow nu ns, whilst putting herself in danger, before she can discove r where true fidelity lies. '
All is not well on beautiful Loch Morag in Scotland, where Sister Joan is resting at a spiritual retreat. Children make signs to ward off the evil eye whenever she passes. She suspects she is being followed. And in the dark crypt, where the bodies of the dead remain partially preserved, she feels the touch of a live hand. A tragedy from the past still grips Loch Morag. But that is nothing compared to the evil in the present, when a sudden storm reveals murder - and Sister Joan must abandon her solitude to ferret out a killer...
The deaths of two young people and the appar ent reappearance of a man who has been in his grave for over a year involve Sister Joan in one of her most chilling and dangerous assignments. She faces an old adversary and confro nts a great temptation. '
has crept into the peaceful lives of the Daughters of Compassion. At first there are only small signs of its presence. The unnatural docility of Sister Joan's pupils at the little convent school on the moor. The disappearance of holy water, candles, and flowers from the convent chapel. The midnight flight of a beautiful au pair from the home of one of Sister Joan's students. With old Hagar the gypsy's warnings of malignant and imminent danger confirming her own deep alarm, Sister Joan begins gently to probe, seeking among her students and their families for the sources of the darkness that threatens this remote corner of Cornwall. And when a handsome adolescent boy inexplicably vanishes, she knows a killer is not far away. In a race with time and death, she pursues an evil as old as the human race..." "Veronica Black was born in Caernarvon. She obtained an English and Philosophy degree, as well as a teaching diploma, from the University College of North Wales. Several of her novels published by Robert Hale feature monastic sleuth Sister Joan, including Vow of Sanctity, Vow of Silence and Vow of Obedience."