- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby; New edition edition (16 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749081074
- ISBN-13: 978-0749081072
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 952,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Those who expect Sister Agnes to be a cloistered violet are in for a stimulating surprise... She is not Miss Marple with a wimple but a suffering, struggling human being whose brilliance in detection is matched by her compassion' Sister Wendy Beckett 'Agnes is a fascinating and complicated woman who inevitably looks at the world from an oblique angle' Val McDermid
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Sister Agnes is about to take her final vows, but is worried about giving up all her earthly possessions. If she ever leaves the convent, how would she survive with no home and no finances? However, Agnes's concerns are put into perspective when Walker McFadden, a lodger at the hostel for addicts in London at which she works, is found dead. When Walker's handsome brother Alasdair turns up at the funeral and announces that he believes Walker's death was no accident, he enlists Agnes's help in tracking down the killer. By tracing Walker's childhood friends and comrades in the Falkland's War, Agnes stumbles on Walker's own writings of horror and revenge on an unnamed man. Agnes feels she is beginning to pick up the trail of truth. "The Darkening Sky" is a cleverly realised novel for our times, based on the moral dilemmas of Dante's Inferno.
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Agnes needs to decide whether she wants to take her final vows and divest herself of all her property. But she is distracted by the murder of one of the inmates at the hostel for the homeless where she works. Andy was a soldier in the Falklands war and has never recovered from his experiences during the conflict. Agnes feels the person the police have as chief suspect may not have committed the crime and the dead man's friends and relatives think the same. By determined investigation Agnes uncovers a web of relationships and old quarrels which could have had more to do with the killing than anyone wants to admit. Agnes' two friends, Father Julius and Athena, also face their own crossroads adding to the tension. This is a well plotted story with plenty of incident. Characters develop over the series and there are always more issues at stake than the simple question of who done it. I really enjoy this well written, humorous and at times poignant series and this episode is well up to standard.
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