num_pages: 218
description: Refusing to believe that the rectory housekeeper committed suicide, Sister Joan of the Daughters of Compassion begins an investigation that tests her vows during the holy season and sets her up to become a killer's target. Reprint.
language: English
title: A Vow of Penance
titlecomplete: A Vow of Penance (Sister Joan Mystery, #5)
genres: Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 677
places: Cornwall, England
series: Sister Joan Mystery
publisher: St. Martin's Press