WILLIAM BRODRICK

THE
SILENT
ONES

THE FATHER ANSELM THRILLERS

The ingenious, gripping series by
Gold Dagger award-winner William Brodrick

Monk-turned-lawyer-turned-novelist William Brodrick has proven with each new installment of his Father Anselm series that he’s the “writer of choice for those who prefer a cerebral challenge with a moral and social message” (Crime Review). In this newest addition, Brodrick tackles head-on the topical and sensitive social issue that’s become the modern scourge of the Church to create an intricate thriller that’s as devastating as it is impactful.

In The Silent Ones, eleven-year-old Harry Brandwell’s family levels grave allegations against Father Edmund Littlemore, an American priest at the Larkwood Priory. Fleeing the charges and concealing his checkered past, Littlemore has gone into hiding, and the leaders of his religious order seem reluctant to help Father Anselm or the police find him.

While Father Anselm traces Littlemore’s whereabouts, journalist Robert Saunders is likewise investigating the man. Separately, they find clues to his true identity and answers to why he has wandered so far, from Boston to Sierra Leone to the Larkwood Priory, under false names. Most disturbingly, Saunders uncovers a conspiracy that relies on the silence of survivors, the Silent Ones, meant to lead Harry Brandwell’s case to court—and to get Father Anselm to play into the hand of a group with dark secrets of their own. Contemporary, disturbing, and elegantly plotted, The Silent Ones is a compelling novel about the anatomy of silence, the courage of victims, and the redemptive power of public justice.