I like the author, Richard Coles and am always on the look out for a new crime series so this book based around the Rector of a small English village sounded perfect.

Sadly I have to put this one as a DNF, I so wanted to like this book as I am a big fan of cozy murder mystery books in little villages but after 100 pages it just wasn't the one for me.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Je suis fan de toutes les séries cozy et j'en ai lu des centaines de livres en anglais sur ce thème. Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, a small village with its own stately home owned by Bernard de Floures. The time period of the tale is never directly revealed but I’d guess late ‘80s or early ‘90s based on clues peppered throughout (am I the only person who didn’t know Celine Dion won Eurovision in 1988. I am sure much of it will be based on his own experiences and certainly Daniel Clement’s personality is very reminiscent of Richard Coles’ own.

I was hoping (given The Reverend Richard Coles' past life and amusing anecdotes) for something like Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club books, but featuring a rector, alas it was not to be.

He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda . Lots of story lines in the book I felt were set up ones for future books as they weren’t relevant for this story. And the style suits the content perfectly: wonderfully feline when it comes to jokes, but moving easily to unselfconscious wisdom when required.