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When young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's Cathedral, Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya are summoned to a chilling crime scene. Montoya’s connection to the victim—his aunt was a nun murdered years earlier—deepens the mystery. Their investigation uncovers a pattern of brutal killings among the convent’s sisters and suggests a serial murderer who knows the victims’ darkest secrets. Suspicion falls on Father Frank O’Toole, rumored to have an affair with Camille, but other suspects surface, including the feared killer Father John believed dead. The detectives must untangle a complex web of clergy, crime, and hidden motives to stop the killer before another nun falls prey.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Lisa Jackson
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