The Discourtesy of Death (Father Anselm Novels) - Hardcover

William Brodrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408704722 ISBN 13: 9781408704721

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

William Brodrick was an Augustinian friar before leaving the order to become a practising barrister. His previous novels are The Sixth Lamentation, Gardens of the Dead, A Whispered Name, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Novel of the Year and The Day of the Lie.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1408704722
• ISBN 13: 9781408704721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352