A Dark and Sinful Death

Attractive, stylish, not naturally saintly, Agnes Bourdillon isn’t the kind of woman you expect to be a nun.

And the expensive girls’ boarding school in West Yorkshire where she’s been sent to teach is hardly a place in which one would expect to find an art mistress as disturbed as Joanna Baines, discovered by Agnes in the art room, surrounded by black paint and desecrated paintings.

Next day, Joanna has disappeared from the school.

And the day after that, a twenty-two-year-old gardener, Mark Snaith, is murdered on the moors nearby, his face horribly mutilated.

The death count starts to rise, and Agnes realises that understanding the ties which bind the close knit community outside the school might just be the key to who is behind these awful crimes.

But runaway school girls and an appearance from her past continue to complicate Agnes’ life.

As she begins to uncover the dark secret that lies beneath the façade of a well respected, local mill owning family, Agnes realises that there’s more than meets the eye…

Brilliantly taut, superbly engrossing, ‘A Dark and Sinful Death’ is Alison Joseph’s richest and most compelling crime novel yet.

Praise for Alison Joseph’s previous Sister Agnes novels:

‘Stylish assurance … instilled with an urgent sense of the complexities of urban existence’ Birmingham Post

‘A refreshingly different central character’ Bolton Evening News

‘Enjoyable … with a satisfyingly believable conclusion’ Glasgow Herald

Alison Joseph was born in North London and educated at Leeds University. After graduating she worked as a presenter on a local radio station then, moving back to London, for Channel 4. She later became a partner in an independent production company and one of its commissions was a series about women and religion, the book of which was published by SPCK. She has since also worked as a reader for BBC Radio Drama. Alison, who has three children, now lives in London and is currently working on a new crime novel. A Dark and Sinful Death is the fourth in Alison Joseph’s Sister Agnes series, following Sacred Hearts, the Hour of Our Death and the Quick and the Dead.

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