The Atwelle Confession

by Joel Gordonson

Overview

After discovering rare gargoyles mysteriously positioned inside an ancient church being restored in the small English town of Atwelle, the architect Don Whitby and a young research historian Margeaux Wood realize that the gargoyles are predicting the bizarre murders that are occurring in the town. Five hundred years earlier when the church is being built, two powerful families in Atwelle are contesting control of the region in the delicate backdrop of King Henry VIII’s dispute with the Pope over the King’s divorce. In the middle of these conflicts, the same bizarre murders are being committed in the town. Two stories of identical macabre murders five hundred years apart - One surprising solution in the mystery of the gargoyles and the Atwelle Confession.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590794302
Publisher:	SelectBooks
Publication date:	09/19/2017
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joel Gordonson, in addition to being a fiction author, is an international lawyer with degrees received in the United States and from Cambridge University. His first novel, That Boy from Nazareth, received critical acclaim. Midwest Book Review called this historical fiction adventure story set in biblical times “profound, vivid, and highly recommended.”

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From the Publisher

“This one is painted on a broad canvas, woven rich in historical imagery and modern characterization. Lush and lusty, fascinating and smart. Give it a read.” -Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Templar Legacy

Editorial Reviews

09/18/2017
St. Clement’s, a church in the small English town of Atwelle, is the setting for this inventive, centuries-spanning mystery from Gordonson (That Boy from Nazareth). In 2017, Margeaux Wood, an academic fellow at Cambridge University, comes to St. Clement’s, which is undergoing restoration, to do research. She and architect Don Whitby join forces after discovering that some unusual gargoyles within the church may have something to do with a series of murders in the town. Meanwhile, back in 1532, the year Henry VIII began his attack on the Catholic Church, conflicts arise between the local priest and the villagers as St. Clement’s is being built. As in the present, there’s infighting among the powerful, problems with fund-raising, and murder. Gordonson is at his best when depicting the tensions within the past and present communities. Less convincing are the occult doings in 2017, though the suspense raised by the gargoyle carvings and how they might tie into the murders makes the pages fly in the last third of the book. Agent: William Gladstone, Waterside Productions. (Sept.)

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