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    The Day of the Lie
    The Day of the Lie
    The Day of the Lie
    Audiobook15 hours

    The Day of the Lie

    Written by William Brodrick

    Narrated by Gordon Griffin

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    About this audiobook

    From the international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger comes William Brodrick's most suspenseful book to date - an unforgettable tale of love, death, and redemption.

    In present-day Cambridge Father Anselm, a brilliant Gilbertine monk, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by 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 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. As he peels back years of history, he exposes a truth that an entire generation was killed to keep hidden.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781471201189
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    • 4/5
      At the request of an old friend, an English Gilbertine monk (and former lawyer) goes to Warsaw to help prepare a murder case against a Polish Communist secret police officer. He finds that the only witness, a woman arrested in 1951 and 1982 by the monster, was silenced when he told her who had informed on her the last time. She will talk only if the informer will be willing to have his or her identity revealed. She will not tell anyone who this person is.At least that is the opening premise. Brodrick’s plot has several twists and turns, all of them believable. He is a good mystery writer and his Brother Anselm is a good detective. I will not remember this novel for its mystery. I will remember it for what I learned about a people put through several hells during a half century and how very different individuals reacted to it. Brodrick’s novels were described as “moral thrillers” in the blurbs and reviews I read before I bought it. Brother Anselm must think hard about good and evil during his investigation, in part to figure out responsibility and motive, in part to help as a Christian, said help offered even to the monster. I don’t think I’ve read a mystery before where previous readers and I felt a need to highlight words of insight thrown out by either Anselm or his prior. I do think that Brodrick overdid it, that he fell in love with his insights, that his book would have been better if it was maybe 5% shorter. But this was a worthwhile read.
    • 4/5
      "A literary thriller" is the description attached to this book by one of its reviewers. Like some other readers I struggled to get fully involved in this book, partly because of the style of Brodrick's complex prose, and partly because of the plot's complexity. This is a "who-done-it" but not in the traditional sense; it is a slow delayering of an onion, each layer bring removed adds another level of complexity. From the title you can correctly deduce that it is really about the nature of truth, but also about justice and retribution. This is well worth persisting with; rewards await the patient. (By the way this is really a 7.1 out of them book; 4/5 is too generous but 3/5 a bit mean)