DISCOVER A DRAMATIC NEW MYSTERY SERIES SET IN A CORNISH CONVENT.

“Outstanding.”

Publishers Weekly

1988. Order of the Daughters of Compassion, Bodmin, Cornwall.

The sisters at a lonely Cornish convent share a chilling secret they cannot confess . . .

Sister Sophia is dead

.

One nun 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.

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE NUNS?

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.

PERFECT FOR FANS OF

BLACK NARCISSUS

, DAPHNE DU MAURIER, MARGARET FRAZER, ELLIS PETERS or CORA HARRISON.

What readers are saying about

A Vow of Silence

:

“Found myself turning the pages quicker and quicker to find out what was really going on in the convent. I liked Sister Joan herself and found

the author really brought the other nuns to life

.” D“I was stunned by the quality of her writing, and loved the characterisations.

Sister Joan captured me at once

, and the mystery was as entertaining as I could wish.” Elizabeth“I really enjoyed this story.

It had me gripped

and I couldn’t guess what was coming next.” Helen

THE DETECTIVE

Sister Joan is thirty-five and a natural rebel. Coming late to her vocation, she still remembers life outside the convent. But having left behind her lover to serve God, she is now committed to her path. When her Mother Superior sends her to the Cornwall House, her loyalties are split — but she knows her ultimate duty is to the truth.

THE SETTING

The bleak, misty loneliness of Bodmin provides the backdrop to these novels. The moor stretches away to the horizon and there are patches of pale grass starred with wild flowers with clumps of blackberry and wild gooseberry. Here and there, the low ground dips lower into a narrow valley of bracken. Over the whole moor broods an air of waiting calm. Sister Joan is lucky to have the use of the House’s stable mare, Lilith, to travel to her teaching duties at the local primary school, where she hears local gossip.

SISTER JOAN MYSTERY SERIES

Book 1: A VOW OF SILENCEBook 2: A VOW OF CHASTITYBook 3: A VOW OF SANCTITYBook 4: A VOW OF OBEDIENCEBook 5: A VOW OF PENANCEBook 6: A VOW OF DEVOTIONBook 7: A VOW OF FIDELITYBook 8: A VOW OF POVERTYBook 9: A VOW OF ADORATIONBook 10: A VOW OF COMPASSIONBook 11: A VOW OF EVIL

“Lucid prose, well-focused plot, and all the trappings of a cosy British mystery” from the

New York Times

–bestselling author of

All Shall Be Well

(

Library Journal

).

When Connor Swann, the dissolute son-in-law of renowned and influential Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline Asherton, is found floating in a Thames River lock, the circumstances eerily recall a strangely similar tragedy. Twenty years ago, the Ashertons’ young son, Matthew, a musical prodigy, drowned in a swollen stream while in the company of his sister Julia—Connor Swann’s wife.Police Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James quickly discover that Connor’s death was no accident, and that nothing in the Asherton family is as it seems. Connor, though estranged from Julia for more than a year, still lives in her London apartment, where his exploits with women and gambling suggest plenty of motives. The Ashertons are far more attached to Connor than to their own daughter, and these are only the first of the secrets that haunt the suspects. New lies cover older lies, as Kincaid finds himself dangerously drawn to Julia Swann, and Gemma must confront her own troubling feelings for Kincaid.

“Detail and pacing are immaculate as the investigation is drawn closer and closer toward domestic secrets as the source of the solution to the crime. A superbly engrossing whodunit for all active mystery collections.” —

Booklist

“The passages of the first drowning are haunting, the mystery is intriguing, the characters are well developed and the solution satisfies.” —

Publishers Weekly

A haunted mansion turned reality TV set. Which of the contestants will scream first?

Amateur sleuth Harlan Holt only believes in cold hard facts. So when he’s cast for a supernatural reality show, he’s determined to disprove an 80-year-old spooky mystery and demystify the other contestant’s ghostly superstitions. And soon Holt is pitched into the rundown residence where a mysterious immortal magician is rumored to roam…

Along with a psychic, a ghost hunter, and a Hollywood scream queen, he sets off in search of clues in the race to unravel the decades-old murder. But when objects start flying across the room and he nearly gets killed, even Holt struggles for a scientific explanation of the strange phenomena.

Can Holt solve the case before the house claims another victim?

One Night in Drake Mansion is the first book in the intriguing Skeptic Detective mystery series. If you like good old-fashioned whodunits, clever heroes, and unpredictable twists and turns, then you’ll love Channing Whitaker’s original tale.

Buy

One Night in Drake Mansion

to pull the skeletons out of the closet today!

A young detective ruffles a few feathers in a south coast Irish town

When Detective Inspector Vikki Kirkby took the fall for a senior colleague’s mistake, she didn’t anticipate being sent from Dublin to the rural backwater of Wexford for punishment.And she feels like the whole force is against her when, during her first case, her views about the suspicious deaths of an elderly couple are ignored.Not only will Kirkby have to find a killer, she’ll also have to win the trust and support of her mostly male colleagues.She finds an ally, maybe something more, in handsome local businessman Peter Booth.However, when Kirkby’s inquiry closes in on his place of work, the busy ferry port of Rosslare, she gets a creeping feeling of being let down again.

The Ferry Port Mystery

is the first of two standalone novels set in southern Ireland by David Pearson, bestselling author of

The Galway Homicides

and

The Dublin Homicides

series.The second book in this new series,

The Empty Safe Mystery

is also available from Amazon.All of our books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback. A full list of Pearson's other titles is as follows:

The Galway Homicides Series

1. MURDER ON THE OLD BOG ROAD2. MURDER AT THE OLD COTTAGE3. MURDER ON THE WEST COAST4. MURDER AT THE PONY SHOW5. MURDER ON PAY DAY6. MURDER IN THE AIR7. MURDER AT THE HOLIDAY HOME8. MURDER ON THE PENINSULA9. MURDER AT THE RACES10. MURDER IN A SAFE HAVEN11. MURDER IN AN IRISH BOG12. MURDER IN A SEASIDE TOWN13. MURDER BY THE HIDDEN BAY14. MURDER AT THE ARTS FESTIVAL15. MURDER AT THE CARAVAN

The Dublin Homicides Series

1. A DEADLY DIVIDEND2. A FATAL LIAISON3. THE CHINA CHAPTER4. LETHAL IN SMALL DOSES5. PLANE DEAD6. PASSION FOR MURDER