Book
Belladonna at Belstone
First published 1999
Belstone convent is divided by a struggle over leadership, discipline and money. Sister Moll has learned the private failings of other members of the house and uses that knowledge without discretion; when she is found dead, almost every faction has reason to welcome her silence.
With Baldwin ill, Simon takes a larger role in the enquiry. The murder leads through medicinal knowledge, convent administration and relationships concealed behind vows, presenting the religious house as a community shaped by the same ambition, dependency and resentment found outside its walls.
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