
Volume 4: The Chapel by the Sea
On a small island off Hydra, where the sea glows blue and even pain seems bathed in golden evening light, Cardinal Vittorio Contini-Verchese hosts a dinner to commemorate the past. Elderly ladies of great dignity, a young woman of dangerous clarity, a few provocatively chosen guests — and right in the middle of it all, Sun Bak, who finds herself unexpectedly caught up in an evening where the past, faith and family loyalty clash more quietly but more sharply than any spoken word.
When a young woman falls from the cliff near the chapel and Jessica is found standing next to the body as a suspect, the Mediterranean light-heartedness gives way to suspicion. Whilst they wait for the police from the mainland, letters surface that could create heirs, destroy lives and distort the truth. It soon becomes clear: on this island, almost everyone wanted what was best — and therein lies the tragedy.
When a young woman falls from the cliff near the chapel and Jessica is found standing next to the body as a suspect, the Mediterranean light-heartedness gives way to suspicion. Whilst they wait for the police from the mainland, letters surface that could create heirs, destroy lives and distort the truth. It soon becomes clear: on this island, almost everyone wanted what was best — and therein lies the tragedy.
The story
Chapters
- The island welcomes its mourners
- Three strangers approach the light
- The penultimate boat from the Old World
- The Luchs year group greets His Eminence
- The Scream from the Chapel
- Silver for a dead woman
- Nobody knows Valeria Sebastienne
- Sun under suspicion
- Emmett explains the porcelain sky
- The Burning Bombé
- The red room
- The green room
- In the corridor
- The yellow room
- The blue room
- Awakening amongst books
- The lynx outside the window
- Lito moderates
- The corpse
- Memorial service for Dane
- Mary Magdalene comforts the persecuted
- Sebastian forgives the vain
- Drogheda calls its women home
- There’s rowing going on in the cave