Eleven Days
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A fire rages through a sleepy West London square, engulfing a small convent hidden away among the residential houses. When DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller arrive at the scene they discover eleven bodies, yet there were only supposed to be ten nuns in residence.
It's eleven days before Christmas, and despite their superiors wanting the case solved before the holidays, Carrigan and Miller start to suspect that the nuns were not who they were made out to be. Why did they make no move to escape the fire? Who is the eleventh victim, whose body was found separate to the others? And where is the convent's priest, the one man who can answer their questions?
Fighting both internal politics and the church hierarchy, Carrigan and Miller unravel the threads of a case which reaches back to the early 1970s, and the upsurge of radical Liberation Theology in South America - with echoes of the Shining Path, and contemporary battles over oil, land and welfare. Meanwhile, closer to home, there's a new threat in the air, one the police are entirely unprepared for...
Spanning four decades and two continents, Eleven Days finds Carrigan and Miller up against time as they face a new kind of criminal future.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Sherez's engrossing sequel to 2013's A Dark Redemption, Det. Insp. Jack Carrigan and Det. Sgt. Geneva Miller investigate the mysterious deaths of 10 nuns in a fire at a convent house in a posh London neighborhood. The nuns appear to have perished sitting at a table, having made no effort to escape the flames. An unidentified 11th victim turns up in a confession booth. Although Assistant Chief Constable Quinn presses for a quick and easy solution, Carrigan and his team soon realize this is a complex case. Most of the nuns served time in Peru, and at least five of them were tortured by a technique known as "tickling the bone," but their wounds are 30 to 40 years old. Father McCarthy, a priest who often visited the convent, is suddenly unavailable for questioning, and Roger Holden, the diocese's spokesman, is less than forthcoming. A surprising plot and well-developed characters led by Carrigan and Miller make for a highly satisfying mystery.
