The Monk Nero Award Nominee (2017) But that is about to

But that is about to change

charged with the twenty-four-hour care of his patient

John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder

The author of The Corrections and Freedom has created yet another cast of vividly original characters

The Monk Nero Award Nominee (2017) But that is about toSet in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. The only edition of this key gothic novel available, The Monk now offers