Description

In his acclaimed debut, The Sixth Lamentation, William Brodrick launched among the secret genre’s many marked characters: Father Anselm, English lawyer-turned-monk. Tagging his victorious return, The Gardens of the Dead starts with the sudden death of a former friend of Anselm’s who'd reopened a classic case—one by which Anselm highlighted prominently. The monk, quickly submerged in a secret that sheds light on the darkest sides of London’s judicial program, sees herself facing age old questions: What's justice? What, fundamentally, is bad?