The latest mystery from a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and hes been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. Hes barely managing, but his troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the coast of Halifax. Meika Keller came to Canada after escaping past a checkpoint in the Berlin Wall. An army colonel is charged with her murder, and defence lawyer Monty argues that Meikas death was a suicide, which is the last thing Father Burke wants to hear. Guilty of neglecting his duties as a priest when Meika needed him most, Brennan feels compelled to uncover whatever instigated her cry for help and led to her death. The story takes us from the historic Navy town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the history-laden city of Berlin, as Brennan and his brother Terry head to Germany in search of answers. And while Brennan will stop at nothing to find what, or who, is responsible for Meikas death, nothing could have prepared the priest for the events that unfold.
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“Narrator Gerard Doyle’s warm Irish accent and deliberate pacing are well suited to this mystery about long-buried secrets…Doyle doesn’t rush the telling, as the story is complicated. Adult characters are differentiated just enough without overplaying, and our narrator also demonstrates his mastery of children’s voices in this layered tale about sins of omission and commission.”
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