Wow. I’m sure glad I didn’t read this book before my niece went on the Doulos. If you have any questions about the reality of God, read this book. Then read the Bible.
Yes, the first part of it is a bit dry, but persist and you’ll be rewarded. At about the halfway point, I started to wonder why the author did not just write the book from her husband’s point of view, but perhaps that was a faulty editing decision. Still very worth the read.
Get it. Read it. Have fun! See you on the other side.
Part of the Brother Cadfael series, which I’d never heard of before, One Corpse Too Many is another medieval murder mystery by brilliant English novelist Edith Pargeter under the pen name of Ellis Peters. Brother Cadfael is sent to clean up after a horrific massacre instigated by the new King Stephen and finds a mysterious corpse obviously out of place among the poor victims. After carefully examing the body, Cadfael realizes that someone has strangled the young man from behind and tried to hide his deed by irreverently tossing his body amongst the victim’s of King Stephen’s latest antics.
I won’t spoil this one because I hope you have a chance to read it, and other Edith Pargeter novels, but I did not see this one coming at all. The resolution came as a complete very pleasant surprise.
Edith Pargeter was not only a very prolific novelist, but if her other novels are as well contrived and contstructed as this one, she is also genius. I will be reading more of her work.
