William Brodricks Schriften befassen sich mit tiefgreifenden ethischen und philosophischen Fragen, die oft aus reichen spirituellen Traditionen schöpfen. Sein Werk wird durch umfangreiche Studien in Philosophie und Theologie sowie durch persönliche Erfahrungen im Gemeinschaftsleben und in der karitativen Arbeit geprägt. Er führt die Leser dazu an, über die menschliche Natur, Moral und die Suche nach Sinn nachzudenken. Brodricks Prosa ist nachdenklich und gelassen und spiegelt ein tiefes Weltverständnis wider.
Anselm, ehemaliger Kollege der verstorbenen Strafverteidigerin Elizabeth Glendinning, erhält einen Brief von ihr, in dem sie ihn bittet, Beweise gegen einen früheren Mandanten zu sammeln. Es geht um einen Fall, in dem sie gemeinsam einen Mann namens Riley verteidigten, der obdachlose Mädchen zur Prostitution gezwungen haben soll. Anselm beginnt, die Hintergründe zu verstehen.
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.
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.
Eine junge Frau bringt Unruhe ins Kloster Larkwood, da der Gründer Pater Herbert an der Hinrichtung eines Unschuldigen während des Ersten Weltkriegs beteiligt gewesen sein soll. Pater Anselm ermittelt und entdeckt Ungereimtheiten, während die Klosterbrüder mit den moralischen Konsequenzen konfrontiert werden.
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.
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.
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.
"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
