Margeaux Wood is a researcher, trying to get a grant to
study an old English church in Atwelle. At the same time Don
Whitby, an architect, is beginning a restoration project of
the same church. Working together the two discover an
amazing sight, Gargoyles inside the church. Suddenly a
series of murders begin and they soon realize that the
Gargoyles are telling the stories of the murders.
Little do they realize that the murders match a similar set
of murders that occurred 500 years ago in the same town. As
the police begin their investigation and more bodies begin
to drop, Dan and Margeaux become more determined to discover
how the 500-year-old Gargoyles know who the next victim will
be.
Joel Gordonson's research into the church and area of
Atwelle is fascinating. He paints a picture of the
difficulties involved in building churches 500 years ago. I
really enjoyed how he looked at the political and social
implications of the conflict between Henry VIII and the pope
and how it affected everyone in England. THE ATWELLE
CONFESSION has murder, mystery, and a surprise ending that
will shock you. Though a little dry in parts, the excitement
isn't far away, so hang in there. Readers of historical
fiction will enjoy Joel Gordonson's THE ATWELLE CONFESSION.
After discovering rare gargoyles mysteriously positioned
inside an ancient church being restored in the small
English town of Atwelle, architect Don Whitby and a young
research historian, Margeaux Wood, realize that the
gargoyles are predicting the bizarre murders that are
occurring in the town.
Five hundred years earlier when the church is
constructed, two powerful families in Atwelle are
contesting control of the region in the fraught backdrop
of King Henry VIII’s dispute with the pope over the
king’s divorce. In the middle of these conflicts, the
same bizarre murders are being committed in the town. Two
stories of identical macabre murders five hundred years
apart―one surprising solution in the mystery of the
gargoyles and The Atwelle Confession.
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