The first in a new series set in an ancient monastery and featuring Felicity Howard, candidate for Anglican ministry. Felicity Howard, a young American studying at the College of the Transfiguration in Yorkshire, is devastated when she finds her beloved Fr. Dominic bludgeoned to death and Fr. Antony, her church history lecturer, soaked in his blood ... 'A Very Private Grave' is a contemporary novel with a thoroughly modern heroine who must learn some ancient truths in order to solve the mystery and save her own life as she and Fr. Antony flee a murderer and follow clues that take them to out-of-the way sites in northern England and southern Scotland. The narrative skillfully mixes detection, intellectual puzzles, spiritual aspiration, romance, and the solving of clues ancient and modern. The book is in the same genre as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, the novels of Kate Charles and Julia Spencer-Fleming and P. D. James' Death in Holy Orders. This is the first in a series of priest/sleuth novels featuring Felicity Howard and Fr. Antony.
- ISBN10 0857210440
- ISBN13 9780857210449
- Publish Date 4 January 2011 (first published 25 June 2010)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 10 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Monarch Books
- Edition New edition
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 384
- Language English