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Return To The Dingle
Medieval Crime Comedy is now a thing.
With multiple No 1 Best Sellers and nearly a quarter of a million sales, Howard of Warwick continues to muck about with the detective monk.
But this one is a very funny sort of medieval mystery.
Brother Hermitage wants there to be a murder? This can’t be right. In all of his previous excursions, he’s been pretty meticulous about avoiding the things.
When an instruction arrives from the Normans to find a missing person, Hermitage seems keen to shirk his duty. At least that’s a familiar theme. But he’s the King’s Investigator, he doesn’t do missing persons, that must be someone else’s job.
Knowing where the person may have gone missing might explain the trepidation.
The clue’s in the title; De’Ath’s Dingle.
That grim and dreadful monastery, which looms over Hermitage’s life like a falling loom, is calling him back. Perhaps he can try not listening.
It will only be full of the old familiar faces, up to their old revolting tricks. And if someone has gone missing there, all hope is gone.
But a shadow gathers in the west and the monastery is falling into darkness. Well, more darkness than normal.
With Wat, Cwen and Bart, Hermitage tramps his reluctant path back to the Dingle, always hopeful that someone might be murdered on the way as a distraction.
When he finally gets there, things are not at all as they should be. They should be truly awful, but this is simply peculiar. There is obviously something going on.
Hermitage can see it, so why doesn’t anyone else believe him?
And even when there is a murder, it doesn’t help much.
Previous volumes have received comment.
“Very good indeed, brilliant” BBC
5* Everything has to stop for a Hermitage book! Hilariously funny.
5* Yet another hilarious adventure for Brother Hermitage and his companions.
5* All the tales of the adventures of Hermitage the monk are genuinely funny and contain an intriguing plot.
With multiple No 1 Best Sellers and nearly a quarter of a million sales, Howard of Warwick continues to muck about with the detective monk.
But this one is a very funny sort of medieval mystery.
Brother Hermitage wants there to be a murder? This can’t be right. In all of his previous excursions, he’s been pretty meticulous about avoiding the things.
When an instruction arrives from the Normans to find a missing person, Hermitage seems keen to shirk his duty. At least that’s a familiar theme. But he’s the King’s Investigator, he doesn’t do missing persons, that must be someone else’s job.
Knowing where the person may have gone missing might explain the trepidation.
The clue’s in the title; De’Ath’s Dingle.
That grim and dreadful monastery, which looms over Hermitage’s life like a falling loom, is calling him back. Perhaps he can try not listening.
It will only be full of the old familiar faces, up to their old revolting tricks. And if someone has gone missing there, all hope is gone.
But a shadow gathers in the west and the monastery is falling into darkness. Well, more darkness than normal.
With Wat, Cwen and Bart, Hermitage tramps his reluctant path back to the Dingle, always hopeful that someone might be murdered on the way as a distraction.
When he finally gets there, things are not at all as they should be. They should be truly awful, but this is simply peculiar. There is obviously something going on.
Hermitage can see it, so why doesn’t anyone else believe him?
And even when there is a murder, it doesn’t help much.
Previous volumes have received comment.
“Very good indeed, brilliant” BBC
5* Everything has to stop for a Hermitage book! Hilariously funny.
5* Yet another hilarious adventure for Brother Hermitage and his companions.
5* All the tales of the adventures of Hermitage the monk are genuinely funny and contain an intriguing plot.
- GenresMystery
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 24, 2022
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About the author
Howard of Warwick
54 books92 followersHoward of Warwick is but a humble chronicler with the blind luck to stumble upon manuscripts which describe the goings-on of Brother Hermitage and his companion Wat the weaver.
His work has been heard, seen and read, most of it accompanied by laughter and some of it by money. His peers have even seen fit to recognize his unworthy efforts with a prize for making up stories.
There are now eighteen - make that twenty - novels of Brother Hermitage, the most medieval of detectives, loose on the world and they have found considerable success with the buying public.
The most recent outpouring from the scriptorium is The King's Investigator Part II.
Tales of Hermitage continue to flow forth with few checks for accuracy. There are even short stories available for free.
There is a dedicated web page, HowardofWarwick.com.
Messages can be left care of Howard@howardofwarwick.com and Howardofwarwick can be followed on Twitter
There is even tweeting @HowardofWarwick
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
May 11, 2024
Three plotlines not very well set up, and not very funny.
I'm not even going to synopsise the plotlines. Sufice it to say that there is no murder and no mystery.
The pressure is starting to tell on this series. The author is writing them too fast. Douglas Adams coudn't keep up this pace; Terry Pratchett couldn't keep up this pace; P. G. Wodehouse couldn't do it!
slow down and take some time to work on the humour. And the mystery, for that matter.
(I've already bought the next one, so I'll be reading it.)
I'm not even going to synopsise the plotlines. Sufice it to say that there is no murder and no mystery.
The pressure is starting to tell on this series. The author is writing them too fast. Douglas Adams coudn't keep up this pace; Terry Pratchett couldn't keep up this pace; P. G. Wodehouse couldn't do it!
slow down and take some time to work on the humour. And the mystery, for that matter.
(I've already bought the next one, so I'll be reading it.)
January 19, 2023
Return to De'aths Dingle
Some laugh out funny stuff in this story. Dear old Howard of Warwick just keeps them coming.
This particular story has as many twists and turns as the Dingle itself. As for Brother Hermitage, I think he solved it, before he knew something needed solving. Clever that
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Some laugh out funny stuff in this story. Dear old Howard of Warwick just keeps them coming.
This particular story has as many twists and turns as the Dingle itself. As for Brother Hermitage, I think he solved it, before he knew something needed solving. Clever that
😂😜😄😁😝🤔🤪😝
December 24, 2022
Even funnier than the first time! A Christmas card of mirth, sent with joy (?) by Brother Hermitage !
March 4, 2024
Very similar to the others but that makes it a comfy read. Cwen shines each time.
November 5, 2023
Wat?! No murder? Dingle???
Alas, poor Hermitage! He finds himself returning to the absurdity that is De’Ath’s Dingle in a story filled wit Normans, some deluded Vikings and previous characters you, and Hermitage, had not figured on seeing again. But all in all, heading back to the strangest monetary in England proves a descent into poor Hermitage’s past, similar to going back to a high school reunion when you hated high school. A good story, as all of Hermitage’s chronicles are only this time, no dead body. Well, there is Blandon, but he was dead when they found him.
Alas, poor Hermitage! He finds himself returning to the absurdity that is De’Ath’s Dingle in a story filled wit Normans, some deluded Vikings and previous characters you, and Hermitage, had not figured on seeing again. But all in all, heading back to the strangest monetary in England proves a descent into poor Hermitage’s past, similar to going back to a high school reunion when you hated high school. A good story, as all of Hermitage’s chronicles are only this time, no dead body. Well, there is Blandon, but he was dead when they found him.
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