bookshelves: fraudio, spring-2011, britain-england, published-2003, catholic, nazi-related, mystery-thriller Read from May 21 to 22, 2011 Sent through from Carey, who has marked it as a 5* and 5* do not come along so very often. Thankee.:O)Read by Nathaniel Parker3.5* upped for the considered ...
This starts with the death of a QC, Elizabeth Glendenning. But, knowing her death might be approaching, she has put a number of things in motion, to draw her old colleague at Chambers, Anslem (now a monk), into finish the unraveling she's started. It gets a bit convoluted, and explores that area bet...
I loved the other novels in this series, but this was very poor in comparison. I kept reading because I couldn't believe it wouldn't get better. Poorly drawn characters with unbelievable motivations was my main gripe (plus pretty boring).
Sent through from Carey, who has marked it as a 5* and 5* do not come along so very often. Thankee.:O)Read by Nathaniel Parker3.5* upped for the considered writing style. As a first novel this is rather good, an author to watch out for.
In creating clerical detective Father Anselm William Brodrick, drew upon his own experience first as an Augustinian friar and later as a practicing barrister plus the actual story in the Sixth Lamentation is loosely based on the wartime experiences of his mother Elderly Agnes Aubret lived through th...
A mysterious visitor to the Larkwood monastery reveals an unknown aspect to the life of one of its oldest inhabitants, the founder of the monastery itself, Fr. Herbert Moore. Fr. Moore, however, is now dead, leaving his part in the sentencing of a young Irishman, Private Joseph Flanagan, charged wit...