The Religious Body by Catherine Aird Paperback Book

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Author: Catherine Aird

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Rue Morgue Press

Published: Nov 2007

Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British

Retail Price: $14.95

Pages: 159

Synopsis

Sister Anne has been thrown down the cellar stairs, and Inspector Sloan wonders who in God's name would want to murder a cloistered nun? Sloan's task is complicated by the unusual witnesses - 50-plus discreet, identically dressed nuns, each of whom has an assumed name and a past secular life.

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