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The Sacrament: A Novel

by Olaf Olafsson

A psychological thriller that "feels at first like a classic study in Scandi noir. . . . But something more tender and ephemeral lurks beneath" ( Entertainment Weekly ). A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child—now a grown man, haunted by the past—calls the nun back to the scene of the crime.…

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