Evocative of Agatha Christie and GK Chesterton, James Runcie delivers the first of six detective novels spanning 30 years of British history. Readers are introduced to the unforgettable vicar and sleuth, Sidney Chambers, who in this story inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewelery theft, the unexplained death of the daughter of a jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery that puts a close friend of the vicar in danger. Sydney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means you are never off duty.
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