For those who love classic mystery tales, the latest novel by Fiorella De Maria really seems to have struck a chord.
In Catholic World Report, Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin says:
Thus it is with joy that we welcome a newcomer to the pantheon of literary detectives. In a line of religious sleuths that includes G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown and Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael, the Catholic novelist Fiorella de Maria has given us a new monastic investigator: a Benedictine priest named Father Gabriel.
Read the rest of his review here.
In The Daily News, Mark Lardas calls The Sleeping Witness “a masterpiece of detective fiction” and goes on:
The book has the feel of British detective fiction written immediately after World War II. Think of Agatha Christie novel of that period, with a dash of G.K. Chesterton mixed in.
And Barb Szyszkiewicz reviews the book at CatholicMom.com:
I read this fast-paced mystery in a single cozy evening. Father Gabriel and his monastic cohorts are a fascinating and often funny cast of characters… I was glad to read that this is the first in a series; I’ll definitely look forward to the next Father Gabriel story.
Learn more about the book on its page here!
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