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Champton è il tipico villaggio sonnacchioso della campagna inglese. Ma quando un ragazzo viene assassinato sull'altare di una chiesetta sconsacrata, il reverendo investigatore Daniel Clement è costretto a mettere da parte le beghe di paese e occuparsi del fattaccio. Il canonico Daniel Clement è angustiato dall'idea che la parrocchia caschi a pezzi, dalla sensazione che sua madre, gli nasconda qualcosa, nonché dalle continue discussioni con i fedeli. In più, è arrivato Chris Biddle, il pastore evangelico con cui Clement dovrebbe collaborare, anche se, per quanto si sforzi, non riesce a digerirlo. Ma il precario equilibrio del paesino e del reverendo vanno definitivamente in pezzi di fronte a quello che sembra a tutti gli effetti un omicidio rituale. Delicata, ironica e molto british, dopo "Delitto all'ora del vespro" torna la serie culto diventata fenomeno editoriale nel Regno Unito.
- ISBN: 8806264990
- Casa Editrice: Einaudi
- Pagine: 352
- Data di uscita: 09-07-2024
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It’s been 2 years since I read the first book in this series - Murder before evensong - and while I didn’t love it, I decided it was time to give the sequel a go… “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— Leggi tutto
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that a story written by a Reverent and featuring a Canon as the main character might be a cozy mystery. Which just goes to show how dangerous it is to assume anything. Not to be too mysterious about it, the murder victim in this book is a teenage boy, killed on a Leggi tutto
Two books in, and the Reverend Richard Coles' Champton is now firmly on my list of literary places where I enjoy spending time. And now I know *when* the stories are set, thanks to the large part played in this novel by Something's Got A Hold Of My Heart by Gene Pitney and Marc Almond, and numerous r Leggi tutto
The story is ok, the characters are made for TV and it is terribly British. But there is far to much theology and bible quotations and verse after verse of hymns. Not for me.
My thoughts on A Death In the Parish are quite muddled. I enjoyed the first in the series and started this second full of confidence that I’d feel the same again. And yet… there was a lot I felt uncomfortable about (some of which was also an issue in the first book, some of which was new). First off Leggi tutto
In reviewing the first of Richard Coles' murder mysteries, Murder before Evensong, I remarked 'I just hope that with practice Coles can make the detective aspect more engaging'. He doesn't. In fact, although a murder is a thread running through this book, it's almost incidental - yet I didn't care b Leggi tutto
A huge improvement on the first outing for Coles' ecclesiastical hero, Daniel Clement. This time, Coles does not reveal the identity of the victim immediately (the previous body was mentioned on the dust jacket) and the body is discovered relatively swiftly. The usual array of stock characters of su Leggi tutto
A very preachy novel and Richard Coles tries to let us all know how clever he is. Very boring in parts but good coverage of dogs.
Richard Coles is really getting into his stride with this second in the series featuring loveable cleric Canon Daniel Clement, his feisty mother Audrey, and the good (and not so good) people of the parish of Champton - now joined with neighbouring Upper and Lower Badsaddle and throwing High Church D Leggi tutto
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