The Convent, Sarah Sheridan
The Convent, Sarah Sheridan
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The Convent

Author: Sarah Sheridan

Narrator: Esther Wane

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/08/2021

Synopsis

Faced with darkness, could you find the light?

An innocent victim. A wicked crime. A killer on the loose.

Meet Sister Veronica Angelica, a secret crime fiction writer and lover of custard cream biscuits.

When she discovers a dead man in the grounds of the Catholic Youth Hostel, a building next door to her Convent, she can see he's been brutally murdered. What she doesn't know is that Jamie had a secret he'd been about to confess.

Being forbidden by the Cardinal to contact the police, the nuns at The Convent of the Christian Heart are instructed to contain news of the murder.

As Sister Veronica tries to uncover the truth, another murder takes place, plunging her deeper into the mystery.

But when her investigation raises more questions than answers, will Sister Veronica be able to solve the case without attracting the killer's attention?

About Sarah Sheridan

Sarah Sheridan was born in London and now lives in a village in South Northamptonshire. She gained a masters degree in eighteenth-century French and English art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, before teaching art in secondary schools for thirteen years. After working with human rights organizations that protect minority groups from institutional abuse, Sarah worked towards a PhD at The Open University, researching the effect of secrecy on marginalized people, specifically the biological children of Roman Catholic priests. She has spoken about her research on various news programs for the BBC and other media outlets around the world. It was this sense of secrecy and silencing that became the inspiration for her first crime novel, The Convent.

Sarah is hugely obsessed with reading and is amassing such an unrealistically large book collection that some of it is now in storage. She is also addicted to writing, and after inventing stories (mostly in secret) from a young age and having various articles and short stories published, she wrote a children's book, The Top Secret Diary of Davina Dupree-inspired by her daughter-in 2013. Overjoyed to hear that young readers were enjoying the story, she went on to write a series about Davina Dupree.

When she is not looking after her three children and menagerie of pets, or going for long walks with her wonderful partner Rich, Sarah can be found writing, while consuming large amounts of chocolate.

Reviews

Goodreads review by "Avonna on January 28, 2021

Check out all of my reviews at: [URL not allowed] THE CONVENT by Sarah Sheridan is the first book, in a what I hope will be a new amateur sleuth series, featuring Sister Veronica Angelica, a Catholic nun residing in the Convent of the Sacred Heart in the center of Soho, London. Sister......more

Goodreads review by Linda on January 27, 2021

It starts with a murder ... but only on paper. Sister Veronica Angelica is a secret crime fiction writer. She finds a dead man on the grounds of a youth hostel next door to her convent. He's been strangled ... and she know who he is. What she doesn't know, is that Jamie had a secret he’d been about t......more

Goodreads review by Miki on December 29, 2020

We meet Sister Veronica Angelica who resides in the COnvent of the Sacred Heart in the heart of Soho, London, when she is trying to edit the latest chapter of her (unpublished) crime story. She is distracted by the noise of the builders in the youth hostel next door. She helps out with the Youth hos......more

Goodreads review by Sallie on October 09, 2021

Given the title I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked this up as I hadn’t read anything about it but I’m so glad I did. Set in and around the Catholic Church it doesn’t pull any punches about things that have made real headlines and seeks to put these into a story. Veronica, a nun who could be......more

Goodreads review by Emma on January 02, 2021

Sister Veronica isn’t your ordinary heroine, she’s an elderly nun with a very shrewd, inquisitive mind, willing to stand up for what she believes in! I enjoyed the pace of this book, which set the scene in a claustrophobic Convent which slowly widened to include the outside world, a hostel and even P......more

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