The Sleeping Witness by Fiorella de Maria is my first Father Gabriel mystery. Like Brother Cadfael's mysteries, Father Gabriel is a Benedictine monk. I guess Benedictines have more freedom than your usual run-of-the-mill monk, because these two are always investigating murders outside the monastery.
Whatever happened to a monk's vow of stability?
The setting is important in the story. I don't mean the place. I mean the time--right after War II. The people are affected by that war in many different ways, and I don't necessarily mean by being directly in it. Those that were directly involved, came home. Therein lies the devil. Everyone is damaged.
The wife of the local doctor was beaten into a coma. She was in the concentration camp. Her husband found her in the camp and nursed her back. The murder victim was a camp guard in her camp. The husband is the obvious perpetrator, but Father Gabriel keeps digging deeper.
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