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A Very Private Grave (2010)

by Donna Fletcher Crow(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1854249681 (ISBN13: 9781854249685)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Monarch Books

series

Monastery Murders

review 1: I loved this novel. My only slight reservation would be that I found the early part of the story a little slow-moving but once I'd got into it I found it enthralling. The way the author weaves a murder mystery, a journey through the holy places of the northern England, and a tale of soul-searching, romance and relationships is beguiling. I read the book with an atlas of Britain open before me. Many of the places the author describes so well, I have either visited, or hope to visit before long. I loved her account of the story of St Cuthbert and found it very moving. In fact the way the author weaves Cuthbert's story (and that of other Celtic saints) into the present-day narrative was one of the very best things about this book. I too feel strongly about the way the Roman ... morepower structures won out over the gentle Celtic saints at the Synod of Whitby, leading us into the Church whose often baleful history we have seen evolving over the centuries. I'm now about to start reading the second in the series "A Darkly Hidden Truth".
review 2: I thought A Very Private Grave was a terrific book. There is lots of church history in it, but not in a didactic way. The history was simply part of the plot which had its share of twists and turns. I thought the heroine Felicity was was delightful and carefully drawn with enough foiables to seem real. I found my self fearing for her safety at times and hoping for her happiness at others.A book worth reading. less

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