The second in the much-loved Book of Psalms mysteries.
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.
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*
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