A Shameful Murder
Cora Harrison

Reverend Mother Mystery #1
Severn House Publishers
August 2015
On Sale: July 31, 2015
Featuring: Reverend Mother Aquinas; Patrick Cashman
238 pages
ISBN: 0727885111
EAN: 9780727885111
Kindle: B0130C8YIO
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Historical

A flooded city and a foul deed in 1920s Ireland

Introducing the Reverend Mother Aquinas in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.

Cork, Ireland. 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel washed up after a flood ‘like a mermaid in gleaming silver satin’, she immediately sends for one of her former pupils, Police Sergeant Patrick Cashman, to investigate. Dead bodies are not unusual in the poverty-stricken slums of Cork city, but this one is dressed in evening finery; in her handbag is a dance programme for the exclusive Merchant’s Ball held the previous evening – and a midnight ticket for the Liverpool ferry.

Against the backdrop of a country in the midst of Ireland’s Civil War, the Reverend Mother, together with Sergeant Cashman and Dr Sher, an enlightened physician and friend, seek out the truth as to the identity of the victim – and her killer.