Bøker av Catherine Fearns

The year is 1545; Geneva has defeated the Catholic forces of the Duke of Savoy and established itself as the center of the Reformation, with John Calvin as its spiritual leader. But peace is fragile, and in a city ravaged by plague, the atmosphere is one of fear and suspicion. So when new rumors of witchcraft emerge from the isolated village of Satigny, Calvin sees an opportunity and plucks a reclusive young magistrate to investigate. Henry Aubert was orphaned by the plague at the age of twelve, and since then, he has lived alone, consumed by fear and the temptations he finds in the margins of his book collection. Now, for the first time, he is forced to confront the possibility of society, friendship, even love. Local healer Louise de Peney is kind and beautiful but skirts dangerously close to the fringes of his investigation. Can he escape the horrific task he has been set? And is it too late to save a soul that has too long been turned in on itself?

The year is 1545; Geneva has defeated the Catholic forces of the Duke of Savoy and established itself as the center of the Reformation, with John Calvin as its spiritual leader. But peace is fragile, and in a city ravaged by plague, the atmosphere is one of fear and suspicion. So when new rumors of witchcraft emerge from the isolated village of Satigny, Calvin sees an opportunity and plucks a reclusive young magistrate to investigate.Henry Aubert was orphaned by plague at the age of twelve, and since then, he has lived alone, consumed by fear and by the temptations he finds in the margins of his book collection. Now, for the first time, he is forced to confront the possibility of society, friendship, even love. Local healer Louise de Peney is kind and beautiful but skirts dangerously close to the fringes of his investigation. Can he escape the horrific task he has been set? And is it too late to save a soul that has too long been turned in on itself?

What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen...Liverpool is in the grip of an intense heatwave, and strange things are happening. A woman dies in an apparent case of Spontaneous Human Combustion; a truck explodes on the dock road; the charred corpses of pets litter the city; forest fires ravage the pinewoods...and there are birds everywhere, silent flocks drawing in ominously.Detective Inspector Darren Swift thinks there are connections, and his investigation delves into the worlds of football, nightclubs and organised crime. But is he imagining things? Dr. Helen Hope doesn't think so. And she believes the key lies in a mysterious seventeenth-century occult book which has gone missing from Liverpool Library.In the blistering sequel to Reprobation, DI Swift is forced to confront some inconvenient ghosts from his past, as a terrifying shadow lies over his city's reality....

There's a bad vibe.A professor of psychoacoustics is found dead in his office. A suspected heart attack, until a second acoustician dies under similar circumstances.Meanwhile, an outbreak of mysterious illnesses on a council estate, outbursts of unexplained violence in a city centre nightclub, and strange noises coming from the tunnels underneath Liverpool. Can it really be a coincidence that death metal band Total Depravity are back in the city, waging their own form of sonic warfare?Detective Inspector Darren Swift is convinced there are connections. Still grieving his fiancé's death and sworn to revenge, he is thrown back into action on the trail of a murderer with a terrifying and undetectable weapon.But this case cannot be solved using conventional detective work, and D.I. Swift will need to put the rulebook aside and seek the occult expertise of Dr. Helen Hope and her unlikely sidekick, guitarist Mikko Kristensen.You can't escape the noise. Only the memory of silence can comfort you. Or death itself.

Are You One Of The Elect?Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology - the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime.When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, she forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who they believe holds the key - not just to the murder, but to something much darker.Also on the trail is cynical Scouse detective Darren Swift. In his first murder case, he must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.Science meets religious belief in this gripping murder mystery.

Are You One Of The Elect?When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, Calvinist nun and eschatology lecturer Dr. Helen Hope forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity.Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who could be the key - not just to the murder, but to something much darker.Cynical detective Darren Swift must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.