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Chargement... A Vow of Silence (1990)par Veronica Black
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Short, easy reads; not particularly plausible even for the genre, but reasonably entertaining. Set in contemporary (90s and early aughts) Cornwall, Sister Joan is a character in the tradition of religious sleuths who came to their vocation late after a life in the world. She is not always a sympathetic character, perhaps unintentionally? as she carries out her religious commitment. The explication about the religious life can get a little heavy handed. The books suffer from some sloppy editing here and there. There is a back story of a love affair ended by her choice to enter religious life and an ongoing interaction with a local Detective Sergeant that begins in the second book and runs through the rest of the series. Nowhere near on the level of Ellis Peters' Cadfael and Margaret Frazer's Sister Frevisse, and without the benefit of being set in a historical period, but I've read them all and enjoyed them. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Discover a dramatic new mystery series set in a Cornish convent. The sisters at a lonely Cornish convent share a chilling secret they cannot confess . . . Sister Sophia is dead. Another disappears. And a mysterious last letter from a dying nun is sent to the prioress. Sister Joan has faced her own demons. Now she is sent to the convent to investigate, as well as teach the local children. There are whispers of virgin sacrifice and suicide, and the mother prioress certainly wears pink nail varnish. And who is the young man hiding in the bracken? Meet Sister Joan, a rebel nun who vows to find out the truth. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A pesar de la aparente tranquilidad, ciertos hechos nada habituales sumen en un mar de dudas a la hermana Joan. No es nada frecuente dar con una priora que usa perfume y esmalte de color rosa para las uñas. Y que pregunta si la hermana Verónica, la hermosa novicia que acompaña a la hermana Joan, es virgen. Y aún hay más.
La hermana Sophia ha muerto en oscuras circunstancias. La hermana Magdalena ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Se celebra un oficio secreto a medianoche en la capilla del convento... La hermana Joan empieza a sospechar lo que apenas se atreve a mencionar, a ensamblar piezas de un rompecabezas complejo. Es demasiado tarde para abandonar. Y quizá también es demasiado tarde para pedir ayuda.
La hermana Joan es monja de semiclausura. Tiene un carácter fuerte y su poca paciencia le hace chocar con algunas reglas del convento. Es despierta y eficiente, cabezota, si algo la extraña sigue su instinto hasta el final. Es una mujer seria con una nota de ironía.