At the Community of the Holy Fire, Abbess Hildegard wishes to turn this convent by the sea into a beacon of ‘greenness’. But on the night of the Great Bonfire, the abbess is killed in a manner no one deserves. Who could hate her so much – and why?
A Hearse at Midnight
A young man’s body is discovered at the seaside beauty spot of Splash Point. He drowns beneath a cold, uncaring moon; and it proves to be a ‘hungry death’, not sated by one unfortunate corpse. There must, and will, be more.
Another Bloody Retreat
In the first of the acclaimed Abbot Peter mysteries, Peter takes us back to the monastery of St James-the-Less. In the shadows of Mt Sinai, Peter faces a discomforting cocktail of deception, delusion and death.
The Indecent Death of a Madam
What brings together a local etiquette society, a brothel on Church Street, and an abandoned mental asylum on the seafront? A cold-blooded execution that both shocks and confounds.
A (Very) Public School Murder
When, the hard-drinking, hard-smoking new headmaster of Stormhaven Towers is found dead at the bottom of the town’s famous white cliffs, the school comes under savage scrutiny.
A Director’s Cut
Abbot Peter has taken his niece Tamsin for a night out to see the controversial play, Mother’s Day. But when the director is found murdered on stage, they are drawn into the grievance behind the greasepaint and a rage behind the stage.
A Psychiatrist Screams
Although seven clowns started the evening alive, only six still breathed by the evening’s end. And while everyone saw the murderer, and knew the murderer, no one knew their name.
A Vicar, Crucified
When the vicar of Stormhaven is discovered crucified naked in the church vestry, the retired Abbot Peter finds a new job. The local community is in shock. The murderer is one of them. But who? The curate? The treasurer? The bishop?
