A VOW OF SILENCE

Sister Joan is transferred to Cornwall Convent to quietly investigate the death of Sister Sophia and the disappearance of Sister Magdalen. Finding many departures from normal convent routine, Sister Joan begins to suspect what she hardly dares to name - and soon, it's too late to even send for help.

A VOW OF CHASTITY

Evil has crept into the peaceful lives of the Daughters of Compassion. At first there are only small signs of its homesence. The docility of Sister Joan’s pupils at the convent school. The disappearance of holy water and candles from the chapel. The midnight flight of a beautiful au pair from the home of one of Sister Joan's students. But when a handsome adolescent boy inexplicably vanishes, Sister Joan knows that murder has come to her corner of Cornwall. And with it, an evil as old as the human race...

A VOW OF SANCTITY

All is not well on beautiful Loch Morag in Scotland, where Sister Joan is resting at a spiritual retreat. Children make signs to ward off the evil eye whenever she passes. She suspects she is being followed. And in the dark crypt, where the bodies of the dead remain partially homeserved, she feels the touch of a live hand. A tragedy from the past still grips Loch Morag. But that is nothing compared to the evil in the homesent, when a sudden storm reveals murder - and Sister Joan must abandon her solitude to ferret out a killer...

A VOW OF OBEDIENCE

Three days after 16-year-old Valerie disappears, Sister Joan finds her body abandoned in the convent's schoolhouse. The dead girl is dressed in wedding white. There is a mad killer on the loose - with a fatal attraction for Sister Joan's tranquil Cornwall convent.

A VOW OF PENANCE

Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion once again becomes the reluctant sleuth when a cheerful housekeeper is found dead and the verdict of suicide looks suspicious. When someone starts mutilating the convent's trees and a bloody axe is found in the chapel, she knows that something sinister is going on.

A VOW OF DEVOTION

With a little help from the ever-agnostic Detective Sergeant Mill, Sister Joan once again finds herself the reluctant sleuth when she discovers first a knife, then a foreboding blood-red rose, and finally the bludgeoned body of a young novitiate - all within the walls of holy sanctuary. Will the murderer kill again? One of the postulants knows more than she's telling, and Sister Joan, as usual, has pieced together more than she lets on. Balancing her vows to the Lord against her unerring investigative instincts, our detective-nun must find the killer before he strikes again.

A VOW OF FIDELITY

When Sister Joan travels to London for a 20-year reunion with her art school classmates, she is surprised to learn that three of the original ten members have died in terrible accidents. And when a copy of a photo taken of the group arrives with the dead crossed out and an ominous black circle around Sister Joan, the pious sleuth knows it's no halo.

A VOW OF POVERTY

With money tight and resources stretched, the Order of the Daughters of Compassion must find a way to increase revenue. So Sister Joan is sent to clean out several attic storerooms in the hope of discovering valuable antiques. But if the rooms are centuries old, the footprints our nun finds in the dust surely aren't. And there have been reports from town of someone walking in the deserted graveyard, setting Sister Joan's investigative antennae into motion. When two young people are found dead and a man who has been in his grave over a year seems to reappear, our sister sleuth finds herself in the middle of her most chilling and dangerous case so far.

A VOW OF ADORATION

The unconventional nun must learn the difference between adoration and infatuation and risk her own life, when she takes it upon herself to investigate two murders near her convent.

A VOW OF COMPASSION

When Mother Dorothy, Prioress of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion, inherits a considerable estate from her godmother, Louisa Cummings, nobody would guess that the death of the old lady will lead to one of Sister Joan's most dangerous and puzzling cases yet. Linked with the mysterious death are an apparent suicide and the disappearance of an abused child. With the help of her friend Detective Sergeant Mill, Sister Joan sets out to trap one of the most dangerous of killers, and in the process discovers the true nature of compassion.

FAIR KILMENY

When Joan Quincey sees the words Fair Kilmeny on the fly-leaf of an old book of sermons, she feels a chill that deepens when she arrives at Witchwood to meet the family of her fianc, Cal Renshaw. In this placid 19th-century Cornish neighborhood, dangers arise that are rooted in the passions of the past. A light flickers by the pool where a witch was once drowned; strangers move across the moor to the abandoned farmhouse where Cals cousin was born. Attempted murder leads to tragedy, and over all broods the shadow of Fair Kilmeny, in whose small hands a web of violence is slowly spun.

MY NAME IS POLLY WINTER

When historical researcher Jessica Cameron takes a room at The Cedars to study mid-nineteenth-century domestic life, she hardly expects to encounter much excitement. But as soon as she settles in, suspicions serenade her heart. Who is that padding down the hall at night? Who is the little girl she saw in the odd pink ruffled dress? Jessica discovers a shred of paper in an old cookbook that is scrawled hauntingly with the words: "My na...name is...my name is P...my name is Polly Winter..." - and her research begins. Then suddenly Mrs. Tate, the housekeeper at The Cedars, and her daughter both disappear. Research turns to panicked investigation as Jessica, aided by Jake, a local artist, uncovers the eerie evidence of an unsolved nineteenth-century murder case that she realizes is being reenacted....