In the midst of trying to raise funds for the Order of the Daughters of Compassion, Sister Joan finds out that two teenagers have been murdered and that someone has been sneaking around the convent, and sets out to unlock the mystery.
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She has a sharp sense of humor, a keen mind, a stubborn and inquisitive nature. She is also devout and obedient?sometimes. Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion makes her eighth appearance (after A Vow of Fidelity) in a cautious story that, despite the influence of her continually engaging personality, falters under massive contrivance and tortured logic. The Order, located in Cornwall, has inherited the manor house of the venerable Tarquin family, extinct now with the burial of disreputable Grant Tarquin some 18 months earlier. While Sister Joan cleans out the manor's storage areas in hopes of finding a few salable antiques, an advertising circular from "G.T. Monen, scrap merchant and silversmith" is slipped beneath the door. She sets off on his trail, unwittingly triggering a disastrous series of events that leads her to some macabre discoveries: the body of Monen's secretary; the corpse of a teenaged thug; and the grisly 25-year-old remains of a young woman locked in the convent's storeroom trunk. What is equally disturbing is that Sister Joan is being stalked?and she swears it is by Grant Tarquin himself. Joan's wry wit and shrewd observations add zest to the mystery, but wooden dialogue and an egregious deus ex machina at the end undo the novel.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Series sleuth Sister Joan, seen recently in Vow of Fidelity (LJ 2/1/96), searches the convent's attic storerooms in hopes of finding some valuable antiques that can be sold to aid the financially strapped order. She sees fresh footprints there instead, footprints that lead to murder. An appealing counterpart to Ralph McInerny's Father Dowling series.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Nun makes great sleuth,
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This review is from: A Vow of Poverty (Hardcover)
I enjoyed right from the start. Sister Joan was great on her sleuthing and the story location and characters all added to mystery!
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Another good "Sister Joan" Mystery,
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This review is from: Vow of Poverty: A Sister Joan Mystery (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) (Hardcover)
Finances are very tight at the convent, so Sister Joan is dispatched to the attic storerooms to clean out old items and look for anything which might have enough value to be sold. In the course of her housekeeping chores, she discovers some mysterious footprints and begins to do some research on the convent's original owners. Dead bodies begin to appear, and as usual, Sister Joan does her own sleuthing, independent of Detective Sergeant Mill. This book differs from others in the series in that the solution to the murders is gradually revealed throughout the story and the only task left is to apprehend the murderer. The other nuns and some townspeople serve to round out the cast of characters, and reliable author Black spins another interesting tale.
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Sister Joan,
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This review is from: Vow of Poverty: A Sister Joan Mystery (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) (Hardcover)
Sister Joan is an engaging detective. I am tired of the hard boiled, smart mouthed, immoral detective so I found a book free of sex and bloody violence refreshing. While this book started well, it became more and more improbable and I found the last murder to be so impossible that I felt my intelligence had been offened. I'm neither Catholic nor British but Sister Joan's activites just went too far for me to want to read about her again.
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