The Gardens Of The Dead

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When Elizabeth Glendinning QC dies of a sudden heart attack while making a desperate phone call to the police, her colleagues and family are devastated, and mystified. What was she doing in east London at the time of her death, and what was she trying to tell Inspector Cartwright in her last phone call After Elizabeth's funeral, her son Nicholas, a former colleague, Anselm, who knew Elizabeth at the Bar before he became a monk, and Inspector Cartwright all receive packages from Elizabeth petaining to one particular case from years before: R v. Spendle; plus newspaper cuttings relating to the accidental drowning of a young man, Teddy Jones - the son of the principle Prosecution witness in that case, George Jones. Why is Elizabeth still following this case And what does she want each of them to do with the information she has sent them

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THE GARDENS OF THE DEAD held me spellbound and fascinated. It is something of a tour de force to set up such a throroughly unprepossessing villain...keep us rooting for his downfall for four hours and then turn the tables to such an extent that our hearts bleed for him as the last of the many tangled knots are teased apart Christina Hardyment, THE TIMES It makes a good, twisting mystery SUNDAY TELEGRAPH As this labyrinthine tale unfolds, Brodrick is able to bring off a truly impressive sleight-of-hand: while we read on, agog for the next revelation, it becomes apparent that we're being treated to character studies quite as rich as that in many a more ostensibly "literary" novel DAILY EXPRESS Ultimately superior murder mystery Henry Sutton, DAILY MIRROR

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Bill Brodrick was a Franciscan friar before leaving the order to become a practising barrister.