A Vow of Obedience

by Veronica Black

Sister Joan (4)

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Sixteen-year-old Valerie vanishes from home in the small hours clad only in her robe and slippers. Three days later, Sister Joan finds her body abandoned in the convent's little Moor Schoolhouse. The dead girl is dressed in wedding white. A garland of leaves encircles her head and a thin red line runs round her neck. Valerie has been strangled. Sister Joan's feelings are mixed when her prioress bids her to assist in the investigation of this eerie crime. But when another young Catholic girl show more is similarly murdered, she vows to do her utmost to help Detective Sergeant Mill find the murderer. The faster the better, for the killer is assuredly mad, and now seems fatally attracted to Sister Joan's own tranquil, unprotected Cornwall convent.

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Veronica Black (pseudonym of Maureen Peters), 1935 - Novelist Veronica Black, a.k.a. Elizabeth Law and Catherine Darby, was born in Caernarvon, North Wales on March 3, 1935. She received a BA at the University of North Wales. Veronica Black is a writer of historic romance novels and founded the Romantic Novelists Association. She also writes show more mysteries that feature a character named Sister Joan with titles the include "A Vow of Silence," "A Vow of Obedience," and "A Vow of Poverty." She has also written the mystery novels "Fair Kilmeny" and "My Name is Polly Winter." She has been married twice and has four children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
A Vow of Obedience
Alternate titles
Vow of Obedience
Original publication date
1993
People/Characters
Sister Joan
Disambiguation notice
A pseudonym used by Maureen Peters.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6052 .L335 .V685Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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