Description:
Agnes wakes to the sound of sirens. St Bruno's church is burning. Agnes races to the scene, a body is pulled from the smoking ruins. Down in the crypt, a safe gapes open. Was this the hiding place of the fabled Judas chalice?
Brief description: Alison Joseph is an English crime writer based in London where she was born and raised. She studied French and Philosophy at Leeds University, and started her career as a documentary director, making programmes for Channel 4. The first in her crime series, featuring detective nun Sister Agnes, was published in 1993.