Life isn't easy for curate Callie Anson, but it's definitely interesting. Her relationship with policeman Marco Lombardi is growing warmer, although he seems to be keeping her at arms length from his close Italian family. Then her brother Peter-beloved and engaging as he is-gets a bit too close for comfort when he moves into her London flat.Callie faces professional challenges as well. Morag Hamilton, a new parishioner, is worried about her granddaughter Alex-a lonely and isolated twelve-year-old with a work-obsessed father and a self-absorbed stepmother. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is dealing with Rachel Norton, a pregnant young woman whose husband Trevor went out jogging along the Paddington canal and never returned. Just when Neville thinks he's solved it, someone else goes missing: young Alex Hamilton.Praise for Secret Sins..."...mystery, romantic overtones and sympathetic characters...draw you in and set you up for future revelations." -Kirkus Review"[A] compelling story....[a] blend of police procedural and amateur-detective mystery." -Booklist"...no one does the British novel of crime and manners so well." -Deborah Crombie, author of Water Like a StoneKate Charles was born in the Midwest but has lived in England for more than 20 years. Secret Sins is her tenth novel and second in her series featuring the Reverend Callie Anson.www.katecharles.com