Secret Sins

By Kate Charles

"...no one does the British novel of crime and manners so well."—DEBORAH CROMBIE, New York Times bestselling author

Life isn't easy for curate Callie Anson, but it's definitely interesting. Her relationship with policeman Marco Lombardi is growing warmer, although he seems to be keeping her at arms length from his close Italian family. Then her brother Peter—beloved and engaging as he is—gets a bit too close for comfort when he moves into her London flat.

Callie faces professional challenges as well. Morag Hamilton, a new parishioner, is worried about her granddaughter Alex—a lonely and isolated twelve-year-old with a work-obsessed father and a self-absorbed stepmother.

Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is dealing with Rachel Norton, a pregnant young woman whose husband Trevor went out jogging along the Paddington canal and never returned. Just when Neville thinks he's solved it, someone else goes missing: young Alex Hamilton.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Oct 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781615950218

Kate Charles

Kate Charles, who was described by the Oxford Times as 'a most English writer', is an expatriate American. She has a special interest and expertise in clerical mysteries, and lectures frequently on crime novels with church backgrounds. Kate is a former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Barbara Pym Society. Kate lives in LUDLOW, Shropshire.

Reviews for Secret Sins

[sulfurdog · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Disappointed, whereas her other bks revolve around COE issues, problems and clergy, this bk is a very run of the mill police procedural alternating with a murder and a missing teenager. Stuff like this is available everywhere.

[condorena · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The ins and outs of the personal relationships are more interesting than the mystery and it is that which makes me interested in the last of the series.