The Sinner

There is nothing quite like the bone-chilling picture of devastation seen in the church of Our Lady of Divine Light—not even the bitter cold of a typical New England winter. Two nuns, one of them is dead and the other seriously wounded, are housed in the cloistered monastery. They were attacked by a barbaric person. The terrible murder seemed to have no apparent reason, but the deceased woman's autopsy by medical examiner Maura Isles reveals a startling revelation: Sister Camille, twenty, gave birth before to her murder. Then, another corpse that has been severely disfigured is discovered. Isles and murder investigator Jane Rizzoli collaborate to unearth a horrific nightmare from antiquity that links these horrific killings. Maura Isles finds herself dragged irrevocably into the center of a personal inquiry as long-kept secrets come to light, as well as toward a shocking discovery about the killer's identity.