Are You One Of The Elect?

When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, Calvinist nun and eschatology lecturer Sister Helen Hope forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity.

Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who could be the key – not just to the murder, but to something much darker.

In his  first murder case, cynical detective Darren Swift must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horric crimes brings the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.