Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins
Grantchester Mysteries 4
Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins
Grantchester Mysteries 4
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Hardback
£14.99
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408862209
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 07/05/2015
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge. On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester's church, convinced he has murdered his wife. Sidney and his wife Hildegard go for a shooting weekend in the country and find their hostess has a sinister burn on her neck. Sidney's friend Amanda receives poison pen letters when at last she appears to be approaching matrimony. A firm of removal men 'accidentally' drop a Steinway piano on a musician's head outside a Cambridge college. During a cricket match, a group of schoolboys blow up their school Science Block. And on a family holiday in Florence, Sidney is accused of the theft of a priceless painting.
Meanwhile, on the home front, Sidney's new curate Malcolm seems set to become rather irritatingly popular with the parish; his baby girl Anna learns to walk and talk; Hildegard longs to get an au pair and Sidney is offered a promotion.
Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful, moving and deeply humane, these six new stories are bound to delight the clerical detective's many fans.
This collection of six nicely substantial stories is an absolute treat for fans of Canon Sidney Chambers ... all manner of nostalgic delights. Perfect reading for a sunny English garden -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Runcie has honed his style of light, escapist, small-town crime stories to something approaching perfection ... Very family friendly reading * Glasgow Herald * The fourth of James Runcie's delightful Grantchester Mysteries, which ought to bring about a critical reappraisal of the genre rather dismissively referred to as "cosy crime" ... The ongoing plots bind the stories, yet each in themselves is precise ... They are a joy -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday * The author ... writes with warmth and insight about the tricky questions facing individuals in a post-war, godless universe ... Runcie is expert at exploring the fallout of betrayal, infidelity and the loss of a child ... Runcie works his magic using simple sentences, archetypal characters and a sense of suspense that creates an atmosphere of delicious anticipation * Independent * Despite the troubling subject matter, this stays firmly in the territory of straightforward entertainment with a vintage ecclesial feel * The Tablet *
