Ita Daly

Aggressive, unreliable and frequently intoxicated, Father Hereward Marr's only virtue is his talent for deathbed conversions. So when he is found dead in a pit he himself dug in an attempt to repair the church central heating, few are sorry. But as it becomes clear that his death was not accidental, ecclesiastical alarm bells start ringing and Deaconess Theodora Braithwaite is asked by the Bishop to lend a hand. She has little choice but to oblige and, as she herself acknowledges, she does have a connection with the case. For Amy Marr, the dead man's wife whom Theodora met in her London group for battered clergy wives, is missing: either another murder victim or suspect number one....