Murder Before Evensong

Zusatztext I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs ... et voila! Informationen zum Autor Richard Coles is a writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co-presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You , and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas Masterchef , Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, he scored a lamentably low mark for a Paso Doble. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times , and is the author of half a dozen books, including a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches , and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief , after the death of his partner, David Coles. Murder Before Evensong , the first book in the Canon Clement Mystery series, was an instant number 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Richard is Patron of Greatwell Homes, a Housing Association providing social and affordable housing in east Northants, and is Chancellor of the University of Northampton. Klappentext THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES' CANON CELEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'Cosy crime with a cutting edge' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Even better than I knew it would be' INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Charming and funny' OBSERVER , Thriller of the Month 'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs ... et voila!' DAWN FRENCH 'The unlikely heir to Barbara Pym' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Whodunnit fans can give praise and rejoice' IAN RANKIN 'A cunning whodunnit... A sharp but sympathetic portrayal of everyday life in a small community' DAILY EXPRESS 'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds' JANICE HALLETT 'Coles' murderous take on a quintessentially English parish makes for a likeable, cosy crime caper' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Champton joins St Mary Mead and Midsomer in the great atlas of fictional English villages where the crimes are as dastardly as the residents delightful' DAMIAN BARR Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda . When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer. Vorwort The first novel in the Reverend Richard Coles' Canon Clement Mystery series. Zusammenfassung THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES' CANON CELEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'Cosy crime with a cutting edge' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Even better than I knew it would be' INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Charming and funny' OBSERVER , Thriller of the Month 'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs ... et voila!' DAWN FRENCH 'The unlikely heir to Barbara Pym' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Whodunnit fans can give pr...

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The first novel in the Reverend Richard Coles' Canon Clement Mystery series.

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Richard Coles is a writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co-presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas Masterchef, Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, he scored a lamentably low mark for a Paso Doble.

He writes regularly for the Sunday Times, and is the author of half a dozen books, including a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches, and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief, after the death of his partner, David Coles. Murder Before Evensong, the first book in the Canon Clement Mystery series, was an instant number 1 Sunday Times bestseller.

Richard is Patron of Greatwell Homes, a Housing Association providing social and affordable housing in east Northants, and is Chancellor of the University of Northampton.

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THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES' CANON CELEMENT MYSTERY SERIES

'Cosy crime with a cutting edge'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Even better than I knew it would be'
INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Charming and funny'
OBSERVER, Thriller of the Month

'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs ... et voila!'
DAWN FRENCH

'The unlikely heir to Barbara Pym'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Whodunnit fans can give praise and rejoice'
IAN RANKIN

'A cunning whodunnit... A sharp but sympathetic portrayal of everyday life in a small community'
DAILY EXPRESS

'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds'
JANICE HALLETT

'Coles' murderous take on a quintessentially English parish makes for a likeable, cosy crime caper'
SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Champton joins St Mary Mead and Midsomer in the great atlas of fictional English villages where the crimes are as dastardly as the residents delightful'
DAMIAN BARR

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.

When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.

And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs.

As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.