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'I loved it!' Robert Thorogood, author of The Marlow Murder Club
'A charming start to a vibrant new mystery series' Vaseem Khan
When semi-retired Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy meets Avtar Mehta round the back of his historic Delhi hotel, they form an instant bond over a sneaky smoke and…
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In Sister Agatha – do I detect a nod to Ms Christie? – Paul Waters has created a wonderful new detective character: a nun with a wicked sense of humour and certainly no push-over. She is not above the occasional minor sin either, in the form of a sneaky cigarette or the bending of the occasional rule. The extra touch of genius here is to locate the semi-retired Irish nun to India.
The streets of Old Delhi are vividly evoked and the meeting of these two cultures is another joy. In what I sincerely hope is the first of…
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