Narrated by Gordon Griffin

#1. The Sixth Lamentation [2003]
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm
is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response,
to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have
imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection
of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police
as a suspected war criminal. With her life running out, Agnes Aubret feels
it is time to unburden to her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been
carrying for so long. Fifty years earlier, Agnes had been living in occupied
Paris, a member of a small group risking their lives to smuggle Jewish children
to safety - until they were exposed by a young SS Officer: Eduard Schwermann.
As Anselm attempts to uncover Schwermann's past, and as Lucy's search into her
grandmother's history continues, their investigations dovetail to reveal
a remarkable story.

#2. The Gardens of the Dead [2006]
In his first novel, THE SIXTH LAMENTATION, William Brodrick introduced Father
Anselm, the barrister turned monk who found himself plunged into the tangled
history of occupied Paris. Now, in THE GARDENS OF THE DEAD, Father Anselm
is brought back to his own past at the Bar, and someone else's secrets.
Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system to which she has
given her life. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme
to bring a guilty man back to court -- Graham Riley, whom she had successfully
defended some ten years previously. As part of an elaborate contingency plan,
Elizabeth leaves the unsuspecting Anselm with a key to a safety deposit box,
to be opened in the event of her death. Three weeks later she is found dead
in the East End of London. Once the box has been opened, a chain of events is
triggered as if from beyond the grave, and Anselm is led to fulfil what
Elizabeth has begun.

#3. A Whispered Name [2008]
'To keep quiet about something so important... well, it's almost a lie,
wouldn't you say?' When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at
Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one
of the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man
who'd shaped Anselm's own vocation. The idea that someone could look on his
grave and speak of a lie is inconceivable. But Anselm soon learns that Herbert
did indeed have secrets in his past that he kept hidden all his life. In 1917,
during the terrible slaughter of the Passchendaele campaign, a soldier faced
a court martial for desertion. Herbert, charged with a responsibility that
would change the course of his life, sat upon the panel that judged him.
In coming to understand the court martial, Anselm discovers its true
significance: a secret victory that transformed the young Captain Moore and
shone a light upon the horror of war.

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