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Alison Joseph
Full Series List in Order
A Sister Agnes Mystery
1 - Sacred Hearts (1994)2 - The Hour of Our Death (1995)
3 - The Quick And The Dead (1996)
4 - A Dark and Sinful Death (1997)
5 - The Darkening Sky (Mar-2005)
6 - Shadow Of Death (Jun-2007)
7 - A Violent Act (Mar-2009)
Books in Order: 13 titles
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The Earth Weighs Heavy
- Oct-2025
- / Police Procedural
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'Sister Agnes is a fascinating and complicated woman.' Val McDermidMeet Sister Agnes. She's not your typical nun. She loves killer heels, sipping prosecco - and solving baffling mysteries . . .Now an acclaimed BBC Radio Crime series, starring Anne-Ma...
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A Poisoned Chalice
- Oct-2024
- / General Fiction
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Meet Sister Agnes. She's not your typical nun. She loves killer shoes, sipping prosecco - and solving mysteries . . .A holy grail . . . or a poisoned chalice?Agnes has never met Jay Sorrell. But she knows his type. Tall, dark and dangerous to know. A...
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The Dying Light
- Feb-2019
- / General Fiction
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'Sister Agnes is a fascinating and complicated woman.' Val McDermidYoung and fiercely independent, Sister Agnes Bourdillon has never felt the need of a wimple to express her spirituality. But her strength is tested by her secondment to Silworth, a So...
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Murder Will Out
- Mar-2015
- / Suspense
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1923. The Great War is over, but the ghosts of the dead still linger. Agatha Christie was one of the lucky ones - her husband returned from the conflict - and for her, and her local neighbours, life has resumed. Agatha is beginning to gain some notor...
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Dying to Know
- Nov-2013
- / Suspense
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The story of Dying to Know centres around a particle collider in Kent, in England. When one of the physicists there is found dead, apparently drowned, D I Berenice Killick is put in charge of the investigation. It is assumed that he killed himself, a...
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A Violent Act
- Mar-2009
- / Mystery
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She may wish it otherwise but now that Sister Agnes is, as Father Julius solemnly teases her, a ‘fully paid up’ member of the convent, any thoughts that life might go more smoothly with her final vows taken are soon proved mistaken.Outside the op...
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Shadow Of Death
- Jun-2007
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Trawling through piles of tatty Victoriana and mawkish lives of the saints in the library at the Order of Bermondsey, Sister Agnes discovers the seventeenth-century Hawker archive, a collection of hand-written journals telling the story of Alice, her...
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The Darkening Sky
- Mar-2005
- / Mystery
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Young, independent and sharply aware of her spiritual weaknesses, Sister Agnes Bourdillon is not the kind of nun who needs a habit and a wimple to express her religious commitment. Approaching her final vows in the order, after six years as a novice,...
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Night Watch
- Jun-2001
- / General Fiction
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When an errant golf ball hits Matthias Kavanash in the head, causing a fatal riding accident, Sister Agnes can't help thinking his death is the result of foul play, and another death is enough to convince her that a killer is at work!...
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A Dark and Sinful Death
- 1997
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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 t...
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The Quick And The Dead
- 1996
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Working in a hostel for the homeless, Sister Agnes had, for a while, felt an unaccustomed contentment with her faith. But when Sam, a sixteen-year-old runaway, is forced to return to her family and then goes missing, Agnes’s hard-won equilibrium va...
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The Hour of Our Death
- 1995
- / Amateur Sleuth
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While investigating the sudden and suspicious death of Gail Sullivan, Sister Agnes meets attractive artist Alexander Jaffe and agrees to sit for him, and the more she gets to know him and his violent tendencies, the more he seems capable of murder...
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Sacred Hearts
- 1994
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Nuns are supposed to put worldly concerns behind them when they take their vows, but in the past fifteen years, Sister Agnes has not once forgotten Hugo, her abusive ex-husband. Even after having experienced his viciousness and his violence first-han...