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Father Anselm Novels, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Sep 30, 2014 | 9780349000350 | RRP $45.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 7, 2014 | 9781405532167 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 7, 2013 | 9780748133857 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown
- Paperback Sep 30, 2014 | 9780349000350 | RRP $45.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 7, 2014 | 9781405532167 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 7, 2013 | 9780748133857 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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A brilliant and topical crime novel which explores the most acute of moral questions - by the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger.
An anonymous letter sent to Larkwood's Prior accuses Peter Henderson, an academic celebrity renowned for daring ideas, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, believed by everyone to have died peacefully two years previously from a sudden attack of cancer.
But for this letter there is no evidence, no suspect and no crime. Time has moved on. Lives have been rebuilt. Grief and loss are tempered by a comforting thought: a paralysed woman, once an acclaimed dancer, had died quickly and painlessly, spared a drawn out illness; a life marked by agonising misfortune had come to a merciful end.
But now Anselm has been told the truth behind the soothing lie. He must move cautiously to expose the killer and the killing. He must think of young Timothy, Jenny and Peter's son. A boy who is still learning to live without his mother.
And so Anselm begins his most delicate investigation yet, unaware that Jenny's adoring father is also thinking of Timothy's future; that this urbane former army officer is haunted by the memory of torture and shoot-to-kill operations in Northern Ireland; that he remains capable of anything, if he thinks it's for the best; that he has set out to execute Peter Henderson.
Death, dying and killing, however, were never so complicated.
William Brodrick
William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1960. Aged ten the family moved first to Australia and then Canada. He studied philosophy, theology and law, worked with homeless people in London, and then became a barrister, joining a set of chambers in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He is the author of six Father Anselm novels. The Sixth Lamentation, was a Richard and Judy Book Club Selection, A Whispered Name won the CWA Gold Dagger for 2009 and The Day of the Lie received the Granice Crime Fiction Award at the Krakow Book Fair in 2012. Forced Confessions, the third book in the Benson and de Vere series, was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger in 2021. He is married with three children. The family live in Normandy, France.
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