The Day of the Lie - Softcover

William Brodrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349122660 ISBN 13: 9780349122663

Publisher: Abacus, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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 He is married with three children. The family live in Normandy, France.

Review:

Extraordinarily moving: a thoughtful and extremely well written tale not only about the lengths to which an oppressive regime will go to protect itself from its people, but also about the unexpected burdens of freedom Guardian A literary and nuanced thriller Sunday Business Post Ireland One of the best-constructed and fasted-paced thrillers I've read in ages Readers' Digest William Brodrick's crime novels have the great (and unusual) merit of being unlike anyone else's, not least because his series hero, Father Anselm, is a Gray's Inn barrister turned Suffolk monk ... always interesting -- Andrew Taylor Sunday Times A profound, uplifting story of murder and spiritual understanding The Tablet

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349122660
• ISBN 13: 9780349122663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384