Description
Everyone agrees that Bob Dexter, the prominent Evangelical clergyman, has a great deal of personal charisma. Those who know him realise that he also has an unshakable faith in his own righteousness, and a real talent for rubbing people up the wrong way. It is no surprise, therefore, that someone should want to kill him. In fact, when the Reverend Dexter moves to a small Norfolk parish, traditionally Anglo-Catholic, and begins remoulding it in his own image, his distraught parishioners are not the only ones with good reason to want to remove him. And there are secrets in his seemingly tranquil family life that Dexter does not even begin to suspect - until the fateful and eventful day of his death. Solicitor David Middleton-Brown and his artist-friend Lucy Kingsley step in to investigate. Their search for the truth culminates at the annual National Pilgrimage to Walsingham, where Anglo-Catholic pomp clashes with heated Evangelical protest, and feelings run perilously high. Too late, perhaps, David realises the danger: will he be in time to prevent a second murder?
The second in the much-loved Book of Psalms mysteries.
About the Author
Kate Charles, who was described by the Oxford Times as 'a most English writer', is in fact an expatriate American, though an unashamedly Anglophilic one. She has a special interest and expertise in clerical mysteries, and lectures frequently on crime novels with church backgrounds. Kate lives in Bedford with her husband and their dog, and is a former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Barbara Pym Society.
Reviews
The writing is elegant . . . to match the apparently normal little English town beneath which lurks the kind of emotion that stirred murder throughout the works of Agatha Christie. * Sunday Telegraph *
There is real tenderness . . . in her detailed portraits of the faithful, from the sensitive student of church architecture who functions as sleuth to the dear old church biddies who arrange the flowers and spread the gossip with as much relish as the witches in Macbeth. * The Sunday New York Times Book Review *
Charles deftly mixes religious rites and politics with her own insight into human behavior. Discerning mystery readers pray for good books like this one. * Orlando Sentinel *
Book Information
ISBN 9781910674093
Author Kate Charles
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Marylebone House
Publisher SPCK Publishing
Weight(grams) 327g
The second in the much-loved Book of Psalms mysteries.
About the Author
Kate Charles, who was described by the Oxford Times as 'a most English writer', is in fact an expatriate American, though an unashamedly Anglophilic one. She has a special interest and expertise in clerical mysteries, and lectures frequently on crime novels with church backgrounds. Kate lives in Bedford with her husband and their dog, and is a former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Barbara Pym Society.
Reviews
The writing is elegant . . . to match the apparently normal little English town beneath which lurks the kind of emotion that stirred murder throughout the works of Agatha Christie. * Sunday Telegraph *
There is real tenderness . . . in her detailed portraits of the faithful, from the sensitive student of church architecture who functions as sleuth to the dear old church biddies who arrange the flowers and spread the gossip with as much relish as the witches in Macbeth. * The Sunday New York Times Book Review *
Charles deftly mixes religious rites and politics with her own insight into human behavior. Discerning mystery readers pray for good books like this one. * Orlando Sentinel *
Book Information
ISBN 9781910674093
Author Kate Charles
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Marylebone House
Publisher SPCK Publishing
Weight(grams) 327g
