Capital Crimes: A Sister Agnes Omnibus by Alison Joseph
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Overview: ALISON JOSEPH was born in North London and educated at Leeds University. Alison has written about 25 radio plays and adaptations, including the Sony award-winning abridgement of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Alison was chair of the Crime Writers Association from 2013-2015 and is a founder member of the Killer Women collective.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Dying Light
Young and fiercely independent, Sister Agnes Bourdillon has never felt the need of a wimple to express her spirituality. But her strength is tested by her secondment to Silworth, a South London women’s prison. She does, however, find the work compelling, as she attempts to negotiate the network of bullies and victims, loyalties and hatreds, prisoners and jailers, searching to understand the often violent histories that lie behind each woman.
Then the father of Cally Fisher, one of the most turbulent inmates, is shot dead. The chief suspect is Cally’s boyfriend. Reminded unnervingly of how she is losing her own mother, who is rapidly retreating from reality in a French nursing home, Agnes finds that she too has become entangled in a dark world that stretches further than the prison walls…
Shadow of Death
Agnes is up to her neck in books. Having been asked to help sort out the library of the nearly defunct Order in Bermondsey before the building is sold, she is trawling through piles of tatty Victoriana and mawkish lives of the saints.
However, the 17th-century Hawker archive, a collection of beautifully preserved books on spells and magic as well as hand-written journals, does catch her eye. These tell the story of Alice, her husband Thomas and their daughter who died in infancy.
Alice’s story seems to haunt the present.
The building, now an NHS day center for the mentally ill, is the backdrop the predicament of Jeanne-Marie and her daughter Leila as well as Alice’s narrative.
The line between past and present becomes hazy, as Jeanne-Marie, like Alice before her, is prey to the men in her life and depression.
When unexplained and horrible things start happening and Agnes becomes convinced that buyers are after something more than the obvious in the Hawker archives, she hurries to protect Leila and lay some ghosts to rest.
A violent act
Sister Agnes is now, as Father Julius solemnly teases her, a ‘fully paid-up’ member of the convent, but any thoughts that life might go more smoothly with her final vows taken are soon proved incorrect.
Delighted to have escaped the oppressive confines of life inside the convent, Agnes is back in her own flat, working at the Order’s hostel for the homeless.
But before long, things take a turn for the worse: a young and vulnerable resident, Abbie, is found dead, and the fragile peace is shattered.
Though it looks like suicide, questions are raised about the mysterious drug dealer Murchison’s influence over Abbie and the other young hostel-dwellers.
What, or who pushed Abbie to end her life?
But Agnes has more than that on her mind and her own past soon catches up with her in the form of gentlemanly American geologist Dr Bretton Laing, bearing news of her long-dead father’s last years.
She cannot run from her past for ever …
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02/12/18
