The Sixth Lamentation

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 372, [2]. Printed wraps.

Author's debut novel. A Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Winner of the 2009 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for A Whispered Name. The first in the Father Anselm mystery series focusing on war, stolen identity and the nature of betrayal, and loosely based on the wartime experiences of his mother.

William Brodrick, in a career change that upturns Father Anselm's character, was an Augustinian friar before giving up the cloth in order to read for the Bar. Now a full-time writer, living in a small Norman village, since 2017 he branched out in the Benson and de Vere crime series. "William Brodrick has written a tense, sophisticated, wholly convincing novel of suspense. This is a remarkable debut." –Michael Holroyd