William Brodrick

William Brodrick (* 1960 in England ) is an English lawyer and writer.

Life

Brodrick spent almost all of his childhood and youth in Australia and Canada . He joined the Augustinian order and lived as a monk for six years. Then he left the order, completed his law studies successfully and then worked for a few years in London as a barrister .

From his experiences, but not autobiographically, Brodrick created his protagonist Father Anselm . In 2004 he was able to successfully debut with his novel “The Sixth Lawsuit”. After Father Anselm's subsequent adventures were also a great success, Brodrick gave up his job and from then on devoted himself only to writing.

Brodrick currently (2010) lives with his family in France.

Honors

• 2009 Dagger Award (CWA) for his novel A whispered name .

Works

• The 6th lamentation . Little Brown, London 2003.
  • The sixth lawsuit . List Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-471-79487-5 .
• A whispered name . Little Brown, London 2008, ISBN 0-316-73154-4 .
  • The silence of the monk. Detective novel . List Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-471-79557-6 .
• The gardens of the dead . Sphere Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7515-3419-1 .
  • The Gardens of the Dead. A Father Anselm novel . List Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-471-79551-4 .

literature

• Achim Saupe: The historian as a detective, the detective as a historian. History, forensics and National Socialism as a detective novel . Transcript-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1108-3 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 2007).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Translated by Bernhard Kleinschmidt.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Translated by Ulrike Bischoff.