{"product_id":"the-vanishing-woman-a-father-gabriel-mystery-9781621642237","title":"The Vanishing Woman: A Father Gabriel Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this next book in the Father Gabriel mystery series, the priest detective tries to solve the riddle behind the disappearance of the most hated woman in town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnid Jennings, a retired headmistress and an embittered war widow, has a talent for causing conflict and distress wherever she goes. When Enid's daughter sees her vanish into thin air, she is widely assumed to have been mistaken or to have lost her mind - or worse, to have committed an act of foul play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Father Gabriel. Working on the principle that some stories are too strange to have been made up, the priest sets out to discover the whereabouts of the missing woman. With help from the town's physician, and hostility from the irascible Inspector Applegate, Father Gabriel delves into Enid Jennings' past, and he digs up the recent past of the whole village during the days of the Phony War, when invaders lay in wait across the Channel and crimes were just a little easier to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiorella De Maria\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Italy of Maltese parents. She grew up in Wiltshire, England, and attended Cambridge University, where she received a Bachelor's in English Literature and a Master's in Renaissance Literature. She lives in Surrey with her husband and children. A winner of the National Book Prize of Malta, she has published four other novels with Ignatius Press: \u003ci\u003ePoor Banished Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Do No Harm\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e We'll Never Tell Them \u003c\/i\u003eand the first Father Gabriel mystery, \u003ci\u003e The Sleeping Witness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ignatius Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856119664914,"sku":"9781621642237","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_268159ef-e548-4853-9ab8-6f87b95894f4.jpg?v=1737496180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-vanishing-woman-a-father-gabriel-mystery-9781621642237","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}