The Sixth Lamentation (Paperback) by William Brodrick

from Clurb

A war-crimes trial brings to light the mysteries and secrets surrounding a number of families involved with the resistance movement during the German occupation of France, touching on themes of death, love and betrayal. I worked my way through this one in about a day, but that's not to say that i...

from marcenursey1

This novel has all the elements of grand literature, themes of sadness and happiness, love and hate, loyalty and betrayal. William Broderick has loosely based this novel on reminisciences of his Mothers war time experience. He also writes about things he knows, he was a monk and then went into la...

from jan.fleming

In creating clerical detective Father Anselm William Brodrick, drew upon his own experience first as an Augustinian friar and later as a practicing barrister plus the actual story in the Sixth Lamentation is loosely based on the wartime experiences of his mother Elderly Agnes Aubret lived through...

from arkgirl1

A woman approaching death has to decide whether to share her past screts and at the same time someone she blames for tragedies in her life is claiming 'Sanctuary' at an English monastery; thus the story begins. An interesting an engaging monk, Father Anselm, draws the threads together and althoug...

from bohemima

A good first effort, with an interesting main character and a well-developed supporting cast. The last quarter of the book becomes extremely confusing as the author tries to tie up all the plot lines. The coincidences required for this would put Dickens to shame.