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The Sleeping Witness: A Father Gabriel Mystery

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fiorella De MariaPublish date:2017-02-01Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ignatius PressISBN-13:9781621640769ISBN-10:1621640760UPC:9781621640769Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Amateur SleuthSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC2GCQ2BH5

In this unusual murder mystery, the tranquility of Saint Mary's Abbey is shattered by the discovery of a gruesome crime in a cottage on the abbey grounds. A foreign artist and war hero seeking refuge from the world has been murdered. Marie Paige, the frail, sickly wife of the village doctor, lies beside him beaten into a coma.

The police arrest Marie's husband, convinced that they are looking at a crime of passion. But Dr. Paige finds himself with an unlikely champion: Fr. Gabriel, a blundering but brilliant Benedictine priest who believes in his innocence and feels compelled to search for the truth.

In a country struggling to come to terms with the devastation of the Second World War, even a secluded English village has its share of secrets and broken lives. It is not long before Fr. Gabriel and his companions find themselves embarking on a dangerous journey into the victims' troubled war histories and a chapter of Europe's bloodiest conflict that is almost too terrible to be acknowledged.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ignatius PressISBN-13:9781621640769ISBN-10:1621640760UPC:9781621640769Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Amateur SleuthSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC2GCQ2BH5

Fiorella De Maria was born in Italy of Maltese parents. She grew up in Wiltshire, England, and attended Cambridge University, where she received a Bachelor's in English Literature and a Master's in Renaissance Literature. She lives in Surrey with her husband and children. A winner of the National Book Prize of Malta, she has published four other novels with Ignatius Press: Poor Banished Children, Do No Harm, We'll Never Tell Them and the first Father Gabriel mystery, The Sleeping Witness.


Publisher: Ignatius Press

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