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When Mother Dorothy, Prioress of Daughters of Compassion inherits a considerable estate from her godmother, Sister Joan does not realize that the death of one old lady will turn out to be one of her most dangerous cases. With the help of Sergeant Mill she sets a trap to catch a murderer.Tags
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Murder mystery, part of a series about a modern sleuthing nun. Nicely done, will have to look for more in the series.Detectives are always a bit unusual, employment-wise. Either they're a police officer , lawyer, PI or something logical like that, or they're something highly unlikely: a long-ago monk, nun, antique dealer... Has anyone ever written a book about a sleuthing executive or 7-11 clerk? I suppose making it something too familiar would underscore how unlikely it is that this non-detective person would get involved in all these murders.
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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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- Alternate titles
- A Vow of Compassion
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Sister Joan
- Disambiguation notice
- A pseudonym used by Maureen Peters.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
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