Peter Cunningham
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing wife, Sugar, a vicar's daughter, and his job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their closest friends are an Anglo-Irish couple, a banker who was Sugar's childhood flame and his alluring diplomat wife, Alison. But Marty is a man divided. While his father fought with the British Army...
Author
Publisher
Liberties
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a priceless Caravaggio mysteriously disappears from a convent in rural Ireland, it seems like the last straw for the little community. With no witnesses and no CCTV footage, the masterpiece is feared lost forever and the nuns, who depend on ticket sales to curious tourists, will have to sell up and leave. But the indomitable Sister Alice persuades Sister Superior to allow her investigate. With the help of the abbey's computer-savvy librarian,...