On Stony Ground

A series of murders with religious overtones casts a pall of darkness, in this chilling mystery by the author of A Hollow Sky.
Nulla est Redemptio: No rest for the wicked. The note was left next to the priest's body.


Dr Alex Ripley—known as the Miracle Detective—is going through a dark time herself as she cares for her badly traumatized husband, just returned home after a long period of brutal captivity in Afghanistan. But when murders keep occurring, and the victims all have some kind of religious connection, Ripley must reunite with her friend, forensic investigator Emma Drysdale, to face a killer with a sinister message.


What Ripley discovers is that the killer's motive is far more personal than any of them thought. But what do these lost gospels, doom paintings, gods, and demons have to do with the deaths of three innocent people? And why is Ripley so important to the killer?