Description: Standing in the shadows of the Vatican, the cavernous, decaying abbey of San Redempto, once a community of more than a hundred, now houses only twelve. Forgotten by the Church, San Redempto's obscurity is suddenly shattered when six of the seven age-blackened paintings of martyrs that hung in its hallways are stolen. The remaining painting -- depicting the martyrdom of St. Agatha -- is identified by Reverend Brocard Curtis, the monastery's archivist, as a long-lost treasure, likely by Poussin. These events seem destined to bring the kind of attention to San Redempto that many, within the priory and without, have been working for years to avoid. While Brocard sets about trying to uncover the provenance of the paintings and solve the riddle of the theft, others frantically work to protect their secrets, resorting to murder, with conspiracy upon conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the Church itself.

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