Chant of Death

Diane Marquart Moore & Isabel Anders
Pinyon Publishing (2010)
ISBN 9780982156179
Reviewed by Victoria Gonzales for Reader Views (12/10)

 

This is the PERFECT book.  It blends mystery, intrigue, history, and the unexplained into a short, but thrilling book.  A group of monks are being targeted by an unknown suspect who is unhappy with their way of life.  The monks have recently started to market and sell compact discs of their chants, and there are many people in the community who are unhappy with this.  Someone is so unhappy that they deface church property and someone ends up dead.  The book is well written so there are clues to the ending, but I certainly never guessed who the murderer was. 

I highly recommend this book.  “Chant of Death” is unique and very good.  The characters are well developed, and the authors’ writing is very good; for example Father Malachi is coping with grief throughout the story and the authors write, “Fr. Malachi felt as though he were choking with grief and anguish. He instinctively fingered the bulky ring on his right hand for comfort.” Each character is different and memorable. There are also inspiring quotations at the beginning of each chapter; for example, “We believe that the divine presence is everywhere and that in every place the eyes of the Lord are watching the good and the wicked… Let us consider, then, how we ought to behave in the presence of God and his angels.”  I thoroughly enjoyed “Chant of Death” and I think anyone who enjoys mysteries will enjoy it immensely as well. Diane Marquart Moore and Isabel Anders have provided us with a thrilling mystery, the quality of which compares to Agatha Christie’s stories.

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