Murder Crosses the Equator: A Father Jack Carthier Mystery

By David Bergesen, David Bergsen, David; Bergsen David Bergesen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891874039
• ISBN13: 9781891874031
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Recovery Communications.
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Murder, he wrote, with wit and insight

David Bergesen is an Anglican priest who dedicated half his pastoral life to Latin America.To those who know him, his wife, and his two sons, "detective" Father Jack Carthier is recognizable as Father David himself who set up and ran a theological seminary for the Episcopal Church in Ecuador. Solving the murder of an older diplomat's beautiful young wife at a church picnic becomes ultimately a fight for Father Carthier's own life. A major strength of this mystery is Father Carthier's vivid description of Quito, Ecuador. As part of solving the mystery we visit and bargain at local markets, take food to a leprosarium, find why a hospital is built in the path of an erupting volcano and survive earthquakes in this city 9500' above sea level. It is all the more real because the Bergesen family had been there--trembled in earthquakes and tasted that volcanic ash. Father Carthier never lectures. He includes as a natural telling of the story the petty intrigues as well as the contributions of expatriates, the diplomatic community, the stratification of Ecuadorian culture, economics, police and the law(so different in presumption of guilt from the United States), and volatile politics. Not protected by diplomatic immunity, Father Carthier knows fear when he becomes a prime suspect. Being abroad for so many years and fluent in Spanish he never actually thought of himself as an expatriate until that moment. Enjoy solving this mystery while getting a taste of trying to understand another culture.