2023/028: Murder Before Evensong — Richard Coles

2023/028: Murder Before Evensong — Richard Coles

It was not Daniel’s first brutal death. In his first parish there had been a murder in his first week, and in the years since several had followed, some brought to book, others unproven, perhaps many that had gone unnoticed? More than once he had buried someone whose murderer he was sure was among the pall-bearers. [loc. 1162]

There are two wolves -- sorry, two books -- inside this one: a charming memoir of a rector's life in 1980s rural England (complete with very civilised feuds and lingering shadows of the Second World War), and a murder mystery rooted in wartime life. The two books (or wolves) do not play well together.

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