City of Silver

Description:

In the midst of a Grand Inquisition, Mother Maria Santa Hilda finds herself at odds when the daughter of a wealthy man mysteriously dies in her care. Despite the fact that it looks as though the girl committed suicide, she has her buried at the convent, a decision a powerful enemy will use against her. Her life at stake, the Abbess and her fellow sisters find themselves in a race against time to prove the true cause of the girl's death.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Silver mines and mining,  Nuns,  Murder,  Investigation,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, historical,  Nuns, fiction,  Peru, fiction,  Bolivia, fiction,  Crime, fiction

Places: Peru (Viceroyalty),  Peru,  Potosí (Bolivia)

Times: 17th century