2025 Murder Before Evensong - Reverend Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) First paperback issue Good book clean copy
Set in the quaint English village of Champton, the story follows Canon Daniel Clement, who has served as rector for eight years, living at the rectory with his opinionated widowed mother Audrey and two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel proposes installing a lavatory in the church – a plan that would require moving pews – the parish is unexpectedly torn apart, and long-buried secrets begin to surface, threatening the village’s apparent calm.
The tension escalates when Anthony Bowness, cousin to the church’s patron Bernard de Floures, is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As the police investigate and more bodies are discovered, Daniel finds himself tasked with both holding his fractured community together and uncovering the killer.
A cozy mystery with a sharp, witty edge, it was an instant No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller when the paperback was released in March 2023.
