Pater Anselm muss in seinem neuen Fall klären, welche Rolle sein verstorbener Mitbruder und Klostergründer Herbert bei einem Kriegsgericht in Flandern 1917 spielte, das den Rekruten Flannagan zum Tode verurteilte.
Die Fälle von Pater Anselm Reihe
Diese Krimireihe begleitet Pater Anselm, einen ehemaligen Anwalt, der als Mönch im englischen Kloster Larkwood Erfüllung findet. Jeder Fall, dem er sich in seinem neuen Leben stellt, ist ein komplexes Geflecht aus Intrigen, Geheimnissen und menschlichen Schwächen. Anselm setzt seinen scharfen Verstand und seinen juristischen Hintergrund ein, um die Wahrheit in Situationen aufzudecken, die oft über die üblichen Ermittlungen hinausgehen. Dies ist eine fesselnde Lektüre für Liebhaber historischer Mysterien mit einer Prise kontemplativer Tiefe.
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Die Gärten der Toten
- 371 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
10 Jahre nach dem Freispruch von Riley übernimmt Pater Anselm von der kurz zuvor verstorbenen Strafverteidigerin Elizabeth Unterlagen, die Riley endlich als Mörder überführen sollen.
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A hugely moving and intelligent novel from the bestselling author of The Sixth Lamentation and The Gardens of the Dead, A Whispered Name reaches into the mysteries of one man's past and casts light on the long shadows war leaves behind.
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"Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her - someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, a Stasi officer makes her a devil's bargain - and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made. Now, fifty years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story and a mystery dating back to the early 1980s, in the icy grip of the Cold War. And as he peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, he exposes a truth that an entire generation was killed to keep hidden."--Publisher description
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The Discourtesy of Death
- 416 Seiten
- 15 Lesestunden
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.
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The Silent Ones
- 375 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
The latest in CWA Gold dagger winner William Brodrick's much loved Father Anselm series - and Anselm faces the most difficult and troubling case of his life.