I sinned against the law, against God’s word reported, I abused my family and exposed them even more to risk of public shame, I again risked permanent exclusion from those rooms and books which were my delight and my whole occupation yet in all the years that have passed since I have regretted only one thing: that it was but a passing moment, never repeated, for I have never been closer to God, nor felt His love and goodness more. Pears’ An Instance of the Fingerpost (if you think the title is a little too teasingly obscure for its own good, wait until you get a load of the novel) is a brimmingly detailed, dauntingly. It must be so, for the Bible speaks only God’s truth. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 5/5: An Oxford Dons murder coincides with the return of the monarchy to power after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate in 1663. The Bible says it, the fathers of the church have said it, the prelates now repeat it without end, and all the statues of the land prescribe punishment for what we did that night. Anthony Wood, a witness to these events, is reconciled to the verdict calling for her execution in the belief that the divine plan will be fulfilled. I say it frankly, for I have been taught so all my life, and only madmen have said otherwise. The events of An Instance of the Fingerpost are set in motion by the death of an Oxford don and the subsequent trial of Sarah Blundy, the woman accused of his murder. “I had never before spent a night with a woman, had someone lying by my side in the quietness of the dark, hearing her breath and feeling her warmth beside me. An Instance of the Fingerpost Iain Pears 3. Iain Pears’ literate murder mystery AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST explores the complex world of England during the Restoration in a novel reminiscent of Umberto Eco’s THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1983).
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