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Explore the riveting life of Saint Edmund Campion, a determined Catholic Jesuit priest who risked it all to minister to the persecuted Catholics of Elizabethan England. Despite operating clandestinely, he was apprehended by relentless priest hunters and unfairly convicted of high treason. This extraordinary figure faced his gruesome execution at Tyburn with grace and unwavering faith. Recognized for his courage and devotion, he was beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII and canonised as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.