The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
431 Pages
"In 2004, as Pope John Paul II's reign enters
its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican
Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered
at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. That same night, a
violent break-in rocks the home of the curator's research partner,
Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the
Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to
identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his
family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he
must reconstruct the dead curator's secret: what the four Christian
gospels-and a little-known, true-to-life fifth gospel known as the
Diatessaron-reveal about the Church's most controversial holy relic. But
just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend's death and
its consequences for the future of the world's two largest Christian
Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down by someone with a vested
stake in the exhibit-someone he must outwit to survive."
I found parts of this book to be interesting but they had nothing to do with the murder or the main characters who I found to be annoying.
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Friday, April 24, 2015
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