The Seville Communion

Apr 21, 2025 8:24 PM

Author:Arturo Peréz-Reverte

Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened with demolition.

Father Quart, a suave Vatican troubleshooter is sent to investigate. Experience has taught him to deal with enemies of the Church in all their guises, but nothing has prepared him for the stubborn faith of Father Ferro, or the appeal of the lovely Macarena Bruner, desperate to save the church and her ancestors from her ex-husband, the ruthless banker Pencho Gavira. As Quart is drawn into an intrigue as labyrinthine as the streets of Seville, soon more than his vocation is in danger.

Reviews

Classy and brimming with panache

—— Independent

Energetic, atmospheric writing

—— Ben Farrington , Literary Review

Recounted with panache and subtlety, The Seville Communion is one of those infrequent whodunnits that transcend the genre

—— Time

A beautifully and intricately written noir in which unique plots and counterplots abound

—— San Francisco Examiner

Riffling, rolling, reeling . . . Ellroy's best

—— The Denver Post

Riveting . . . Impossible to put down . . . An author who breaks all the rules. He's a kamikaze pilot on a collision course with hell. The pen moves madly across the page . . . A book that is one long scream of rage and emptiness and longing

—— The News and Observer

The most original crime writer of our time

—— Spectator

James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world

—— Times Literary Supplement

Without him and his crime fiction, there's no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy

—— GQ

Pears brings to life a vibrant 17th-century world...a tour de force

—— Daily Telegraph

Crammed with period detail, it's as much a novel of ideas as it is of character

—— Val McDermid , The Week

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