Murder Before Evensong: The instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller (Canon Clement Mystery)

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It has lot of twists and wonderful divinity style murder along with lots of hummers religious jokes. O facto de ser passado entre as décadas de 80 e 90 do século passado empresta-lhe um charme que gosto. This was a decent read and a solid start to the Canon Clement series that left me thinking that it has a lot more to offer. Canon Daniel Clement is rector of Champton, and lives with his mother Audrey and two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.

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. Britain's favourite vicar might be hanging up the dog collar, but in Murder Before Evensong he proves to be the unlikely heir to Barbara Pym. The Vicar of Dibley type setting is entertaining; the canon himself is rather bland but has potential. Now I really like the Reverend Richard Coles and he has a winning writing style, but his publisher has done him a disservice by not being strict enough in the editing.

This dignified, compassionate, beautifully written and a very clever (so far, I am only half way through) story is BY FAR, the best contemporary mystery that have read in a long, time. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number-one hit single and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing . The presence of the de Floures family and estate, with Champton House, looms large in the life of the village as does his domineering mother, Audrey, who moved into the rectory with him when she was widowed.

This is set within living memory of the Second World War, (from television shows mentioned, I put it at the early Eighties, but I may be wrong,) and the village housed many of the Free French, who have left their mark behind.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The most exciting thing to happen in Champton is the argument as to whether the church should install a lavatory or a buttery for the flower arrangers, then Bernard de Floures' alcoholic cousin is found by Daniel, murdered in one of the pews, with a pair of secateurs no less!

In addition, frankly there are absolutely no clues whatsoever to help the reader guess the murderer and the identification of the murderer comes out of left-field.In January 2011 The Reverend Richard Coles was appointed as the parish priest of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon in the Diocese of Peterborough. The debut novel from broadcaster and cleric Reverend Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong features Daniel Clement, amateur sleuth and rector of St Mary’s church in Champton, an English village surrounded by verdant hills and country lanes lined with primroses. The Reverend Richard Coles gives us a serpent in England's pastoral Eden - and whodunit fans can give praise and rejoice. For a first-time fiction author, the potential is there, so why wasn’t there more input to make this, the Reverend Coles’ first book, the best it could be?

This is quite a enjoyable mystery, and I didn’t guess whodunnit, which is always satisfactory, though the motive for the murder seemed a bit far fetched - but I suppose people have been killed for strange reasons. Daniel is told to be uneasy about the situation, but this isn’t shown in this story, his character doesn’t change. the plotting is woefully underdone (it's the kind of murder where anyone could have done it so you have to pick by motive), the murderer unconvincing, and the motive even less so. The ending and the murderer just felt empty and I just overall wished there was much more love towards the murder aspect of this book - seeing as it is the title of the book. I felt descriptions of characters were lacking and that made it harder for me to remember who they were.There is no reference to time here at all, and it was more than half way through before I could pin point ‘mid eighties’. As readers we were expected to be familiar with a load of French and Latin phrases and some pretty hard vocab.