Before taking her vows, Sister Rose was Maggie Weaver, a Newcastle policewoman who suffered severe trauma while uncovering a serial killer. Nursed back to health by nuns, she joins their Order. In her new calling she finds herself sent to London to run a hostel for the homeless. Here, while doing good works, she combats prejudice and crime. As Sister Rose attempts to save a homeless woman from a local gang boss, events crystallize, taking her back to Newcastle, the scene of her nightmares, to play out the final confrontation against drug traffickers, murderers and old enemies in the police. She finds her spiritual self and a new identity. She is healed through faith and forgiveness. Survival, trauma and grief, can the human spirit triumph, can good prevail over evil despite everything.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A first rate thriller,
This review is from: Pain Wears No Mask (Paperback)
This is the first in the Sister Rose series of crime thrillers. It features a highly unusual, but completely believable main character, an ex-policewoman turned nun. How this transformation came about is skilfully told to us by Sister Rose herself, in tantalising snippets that just make you want to plough quickly through the novel.Nik Morton knows how to write a thriller. His style initially made me think of Georges Simenon, in that it is clipped and laconic, but also wonderfully descriptive. And how! It is not surprising that he won a runner up place in the 2006 Harry Bowling Prize for the high body count in the first chapter. It is a case of lights, camera - action! And once you have started, there is no stopping. There is more to come, all meticulously described in a manner that makes you wonder whether he has spent part of his career at crime scenes. The chapters are short like Dan Brown's. They all have pithy titles that tempt you in, then they end as cliff-hangers that make you just want to read the next. The characters are all well drawn, especially Sister Rose herself. As details of her traumatic earlier life are revealed you worry for her as she finds herself the focus of much unwanted attention. There is a serial killer who will make your spine tingle in Jack the Ripper fashion, and there are old demons awaiting her as she revisits the scene of her nightmares I think this is a first rate crime thriller, which also delivers a strong message. I look forward to reading the next.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great imagery and mood,
This review is from: Pain Wears No Mask (Paperback)
Nik Morton has a great voice for creating mood and atmosphere. As you read the pages you find yourself "on" the streets of London, your senses soaked in the narrative. The protagonist has a strong voice and - despite being a nun - you find yourself relating to her from the start. Great read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A crime thriller on several levels,
By Philip Spires "Author of Mission, an African ... (La Nucia, Spain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pain Wears No Mask (Paperback)
Pain Wears No Mask by Nik Morton is no ordinary thriller. It has an extra dimension that constantly encourages the reader to take an interest in more than a tale of events. It is the book's central character that provides this extra dimension, because she seems to have two quite different identities. One provides the content of her tale, while the other informs her approach and motives.As Maggie Weaver, the book's first person narrator is a policewoman in Newcastle. She is devoted to her husband, also a policeman, and is utterly involved with her work. Like many honest, hard-working law enforcers, Maggie is angered at the suffering of the victims of crime and outraged at the ability of the guilty to avoid punishment. Even greater ire is reserved for the bent cops that facilitate both outcomes. When Maggie Weaver, the policewoman becomes involved in a particularly brutal case, the final outcome affects herself personally, her marriage and her colleagues. The case is resolved, partially, but the mayhem it generates has permanent consequences. Sister Rose works in a hostel for the homeless in south London. She has adopted her vocation as a mature woman, trained, taken vows and spent a couple of years as a missionary in Peru. It was there, high in the Andes, working with poor people who have to scratch for a living, that she truly understands the nature of her vocation. When, back in London, Sister Rose finds herself by chance involved in a complex, multiple crime, she resolves to accept the challenge to become involved, to pursue her privately-informed investigation of events. Sister Rose, the compassionate nun, and Maggie Weaver, the experienced crime fighter and policewoman are, of course, the same person. Maggie's and Rose's stories are not presented sequentially, however. Nik Morton begins with the London crime which gradually reveals its relevance to what befell Maggie in Newcastle years before. Thus, both in form and content Pain Wears No Mask transcends its genre. Because of this the reader finds that Sister rose's future is also as interesting as her related past. When, via Peru, the story returns to Newcastle to confront the unfinished business of years before, Maggie and Rose combine talents, approaches and identities when events promise the settling of old scores and the possibility of reaching beyond the mere foot-soldiers of injustice. Pain Wears No Mask is a well written, intriguing story. It will entertain those used to its genre, but it will also provide interest for the general reader.
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