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JAMES RUNCIE
‘While the diminutive priest detective created by G. K. Chesterton led the way, Sidney Chambers is set fair to be a worthy successor. In a sceptical age this is quite an achievement’ D A I L Y M A I L
THE SHADOW
AUTHOR OF
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‘Sandy McCall Smith’s Mma Ramotswe is going to have to look at her laurels! Sidney Chambers’s adventures are thoroughly captivating and engaging’ AMANDA CRAIG,
SIDNEY CHAMBERS
Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two-year-old clergyman with a difference: he is also a reluctant detective. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney stumbles across a series of baffling cases: the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor; a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year’s Eve dinner party; the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter’s daughter; and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty...
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‘The cosiest of cozy murder mysteries’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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DEATH
‘At last, an Anglican Father Brown ... Beautifully crafted and surprising. I hope for many more volumes’ A. N . W I L S O N , S P E C T A T O R
‘A charmingly effective tale of detection’
RICHARD HOLLOWAY,
THE TIMES
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JAMES RUNCIE
‘It will go well with a long, slow gin and tonic’
SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH ‘Chambers is a winning clergyman-sleuth’
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