Author:Thomas Gifford
For fans of The Da Vinci Code: A conspiracy thriller about an age-old brotherhood of killers. Once hired by princes of the Church to protect it in dangerous times, whose orders do they obey now?
In the Vatican, the pope is dying as priestly vultures gather around, whispering the names of possible successors. In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claimed. And in a family chapel in Princeton, New Jersey, a nun is murdered at her prayers. Sister Valentine was an outspoken activist, a thorn in the Church's side. When her brother, lawyer Ben Driskill, realizes that the Church will never investigate her death, he sets out to find the murderer himself -- and uncovers a dangerous, explosive secret.
A classic thriller.
—— Publishers WeeklyAn extraordinary novel. Delivered with style, believability, and sharp characterisations.
—— Nelson DeMilleFascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book
—— Sarah Broadhurst , BooksellerA page-turner of a mystery
—— Waterstones' QuarterlyNeat, clever and loads and loads of fun
—— Daily SportMuch to enjoy..the solution in the final pages is particularly cunning
—— TelegraphSwarup has a redeeming eye for the disparites that define Indian society
—— GuardianA Bollywood version of the board game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in. Its stock characters are easily identified: the Bureaucrat, the Actress, the Tribal, the Thief, the Politician and the American. Each attended the party at which a man named Vicky Rai, a playboy film producer, was murdered. Each has a gun and a motive. And although the story's geographical span is even bigger than India, the whole thing feels handily confined to the kind of isolated, air-tight setting that Agatha Christie's readers love.Thanks to such a schematic setup "Six Suspects" is gleeful, sneaky fun. But it's also a much more freewheeling book than the format implies. Mr. Swarup, an Indian diplomat, brings a worldly range of attributes to his potentially simple story. And he winds up delivering a rambling critique of Indian culture, taking shots at everything from racism to reality TV. Yet Mr. Swarup's style stays light and playful, preferring to err on the side of broad high jinks rather than high seriousness...A refreshing oddity. It bears no resemblance to the cookie-cutter genre books of this season
—— Janet Maslin , New York TimesA teeming, beguiling Indian panorama wrapped in a clever whodunit.
—— Kirkus ReviewsA blockbuster of a story that begins with a murder, then delves into the lives and motives of the six suspects. The reader becomes intimately involved with each suspect while being treated to an eye-opening account of life in India (4 1/2 stars)
—— Romantic Times Book Reviews USEssentially a stunning exploration of the darkest parts of the human psyche, one which will haunt the reader
—— Socialist ReviewThere is no doubt that Crime is a page-turner
—— New StatesmanReacher fans will love it - it's all storming compounds, breaking hearts and not bothering to take names, taking justice into his own hands and to hell with the wos'name... a solid inter-Bond-film substitute
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