William Brodrick, Author . Viking $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-03191-7
Broderick's masterful first novel is characterized by the publisher as a "literary thriller," as though it needed that label to attract and galvanize buyers. But the book defies genre pigeonholing; it is simply storytelling at its finest.
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William Brodrick, Author . Viking $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-670-03498-7
Sharply etched characters who owe a lot to the darker side of Dickens lift Brodrick's sequel to his well-received debut, The Sixth Lamentation
(2003), which introduced Father Anselm, an English lawyer turned monk. Unfortunately, many of the...
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William Brodrick. Overlook, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4683-1061-0
Early in Brodrick’s mild fifth Father Anselm thriller (after 2012’s The Day of the Lie), the prior of Larkwood Priory near Sudbury, England, hands Anselm, who has made a reputation for himself as a detective, a typed anonymous letter, which...
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William Brodrick. Overlook, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4683-1116-7
Journalist John Fielding asks his friend Fr. Anselm Duffy, an English monk and former lawyer, to help a former Polish freedom fighter, in Brodrick’s labyrinthine fourth Father Anselm thriller (after 2008’s A Whispered Name). Róza Mojewska was John’s
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William Brodrick. Overlook, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4683-1115-0
At the start of Brodrick’s poignant third Father Anselm mystery (after The Gardens of the Dead), Anselm has an unsettling encounter with a woman in the Larkwood Priory cemetery near Sudbury, England, that raises questions about Fr. Herbert Moore,...
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William Brodrick. Overlook, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4683-1683-4
British author Brodrick’s outstanding sixth Father Anselm thriller (after The Discourtesy of Death) plunges the monk and former lawyer into a horrific child molestation case. Given the Catholic Church’s notorious history of child sexual abuse by...
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