Well I just finished The Sinner by Tess Gerritssen. It's an ok book. It starts with a murder at a convent where a young, pretty nun gets beaten over the head and an older nun gets beaten as well. The older nun survives and is hospitalized. At the same time they find the body of a woman with Hansen's disease (leprosy) in this abandoned where house without her face, hands and feet. The reason for peeling off her face and her cutting her hands and feet was to hide the fact that she had leprosy. In the autopsy of the young nun it is revealed that she had recently given birth. They found her baby buried in the pond behind the convent and he was born dead, with half a brain and incomplete skull and his face was like pushed in... it is later revealed that the child was a product of incests, The girl had been abused by her father many years and that is why she became a nun, to fight the impurity she felt from the abuse and to run from her father. The FBI is called in becaue they found a body in the trunk of a car that had crossed state lines (making it a federal crime) and it turns out that they are ALL connected POM POM POM!!!!! AS it turns out, the guy in the trunk worked for Octagon Chemicals that had a plant in a mile from Bara India, Bara was a Leper colony of 100 inhabitants where the older nun worked. Turns out one night the nun leaves for supplies to the nearest city and when she comes back she finds the village in shambles, bodies burnt, even chickens and goats. Turns out the Chemical plant had a little accident and a cloud of poisonous chemicals engulfed the village in the valley below killing everything, The nun was a witness to a few survivors (remember the lady with no hands and feet?) she returns to the U.S and her convent, later (a year later) the person doing the cover ups goes to the convent to kill her, the young nun sees a light in the chapel and from curiousity goes to see what it is and BAM, gets killed too! Then the leper gets offed as well, the guy in the trunk, the old nun and the no hands lady were all wittnesses to the atrosotiy comitted by the killer. The resident doctor at octagon chemicals that had ordered the bodies burnt to make it look like a terrorist attack rahter than an industrial accident but he burnt a few bodies that weren't dead yet... OH OH hahahaha. Of course the perp gets caught and they all live and die happily ever after. Again... an ok bood to pass the time.
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--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/blink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'blink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]. Instead it was some rubbish about a man chasing the woman he loved (but he didn't really, he'd just kissed her once).
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