Soul Murder
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A riveting crime novel by Irish Benedictine monk Andrew Nugent explores the darkness found in the human soul
When Maurice Tyson, housemaster at a top boys' boarding school in Ireland, is found with his throat slit, Superintendent Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power of the Irish Police Force struggle to uncover any probable motive for the brutal killing. Was it revenge? A kidnap attempt by terrorists gone badly wrong? Or is there a connection to a former student who killed himself barely a year ago?
A boy mysteriously disappears and the hunt is on for his abductors. But when another body is found, the situation gets even darker. Someone out there has a terrible secret, and will stop at nothing to keep it hidden.
Andrew Nugent's third police procedural is a tour de force, filled with the compassion, insight, and humor that consistently mark the work of this very talented author.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Irish author Nugent's less than inspired third police procedural to feature Supt. Denis Lennon and Sgt. Molly Power of the Garda S och na (after 2006's Second Burial for a Black Prince) opens with a terrifying discovery. Students at St. Isidore's, a boys' boarding school in North Kerry, on returning to their dorm from an illegal midnight barbecue, find the bloody corpse of their house master, Maurice Tyson, whose throat has been slit. St. Isidore's head suggests Tyson was the accidental victim of kidnappers targeting Bertrand Laporte, a French student from a wealthy family, an unlikely theory that gains plausibility when Laporte is later abducted back in his native country. News that a former student accused Tyson of abuse offers a different motive for the police to pursue. The author's portrayal of private school life rings true, though the denouement strains credibility. His engaging police characters deserve a more imaginative plot, like that of his 2005 debut, The Four Courts Murder.
