# They See in Darkness

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- Book: [They See in Darkness](https://www.bookquiver.com/ethel-lina-white/they-see-in-darkness) ([They See in Darkness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ethel-lina-white/they-see-in-darkness.md))
- Authors: [Ethel Lina White](https://www.bookquiver.com/ethel-lina-white)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-722-6
- Published: 2015-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals. A wealthy, reclusive sisterhood lives there too, in a large mansion, Cloisters; a group known locally as the 'Black Nuns', who are said to have extraordinary healing powers. But a killer is at work in Oldtown, and a series of murders has thrown the inhabitants into blind, unreasoning terror, a fear of darkness and of strange sounds - sounds such as the pitiless beat of following footsteps. Suddenly the town is plunged into a miasma of fear and superstition ...