Vow of Penance

Veronica Black

Dec 2011 · Robert Hale

About this ebook

As the Lenten season of Penance is observed in the Convent of the Daughters of Compassion, Sister Joan finds herself struggling with her less-than-Christian feelings toward two very prickly personalities: the serious and rather stiff Father Timothy and the dour Sister Jerome. Soon, however, she finds herself wrestling with a larger transgression - murder. When the rectory housekeeper is found dead of a pill overdose, Sister Joan refuses to believe the police's suspicions of suicide - and an accident seems equally unlikely. A sudden rash of corpses appears to bear out her theory. Now as she grapples with her conscience and her vows during the holy season, the fearless nun sets a trap for a killer... but she may well find herself caught in an unholy - and deadly - snare.

About the author

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 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.