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Cecilian Vespers: A Collins-Burke Mystery, Book 4
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers - and occasionally investigating murders himself - but he's never come up against anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned German theologian who has been found dead on the altar of an old church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saint Cecilia's Day. The controversial priest, once a top insider in the Vatican, was known to provoke strong feelings in Catholics of all ideological stripes, and now those feelings have overflowed with horrifying results.
At least Monty knows where to look for clues: his friend Father Brennan Burke has just opened a choir school at the church, and the students provide an international cast of suspects - including a flamboyant Sicilian priest, an eccentric English monk, a disgruntled American, a Vatican enforcer, a church lady with a history of violence, and most perplexing of all, a police officer from the former East Berlin.
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- mollyeyre
- 01-02-16
Losing control a bit
I basically do enjoy this series, but with each book The priest, Burke, becomes less priestly - I quite like his irascible ways, but the amount of drink that he and Montague imbibe is just plain daft, and some of their other activities are a bit beyond belief too.
I also find that the over the top obsession with his church music is reaching the heights where I am wondering - 'Is Anne Emery trying to impress us with her knowledge?' It detracts rather than adds to the story.
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- Enquiring Mind
- 17-03-14
Another excellent helping of Collins and Burke!
Monty and Brennan have their hands full in this one. Brennan sees the dream of his life, his music school, at risk from a gruesome murder and Monty has to struggle against a pile of clues that make (at least at first) no sense. It seems everyone has a secret and something to hide, but no-one seems to have motive enough to kill an old priest. That is until Monty starts digging! The trail of clues takes Monty and Brennan to Italy where Monty gets to see a whole different side to his closest friend. All of the Collins-Burke mysteries centre around a Catholic community, but this one is steeped in it. Now I thoroughly enjoyed that, but those who might not, need to be aware that it is the raison d'être of the plot and it is on every page. But having said that, what a plot it is. This book and Murder at Christie Burke's are the two best Collins-Burke mysteries, more detailed and more meat in the plot. Monty and Brennan are at their best and the seemingly senseless crime has a really sharp ending.The icing on the cake for all these books is the narration by Christian Rummel. He does a superb job. It's no wonder there are literally dozens of books out there narrated by him, he is awesome.
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