Book description
The second novel in the Lydmouth crime series, from the prize-winning
author of the Richard and Judy Book Club novel,
The American Boy
.
When a spinster of the parish is found bludgeoned to death in St John's
and the Lydmouth chalice is missing, the finger of suspicion points at
the new vicar, who is already beset with problems.
The glare of the police investigation reveals shabby secrets and
private griefs. Jill Francis, struggling to find her feet in her new
life, stumbles into the case. But even a journalist cannot always watch
from the sidelines and she is soon inextricably involved in the Suttons'
affairs. Despite the electric antagonism between her and Inspector
Richard Thornhill, she has instincts that she can't ignore . . . 'How
skilfully he recreates the atmosphere of the time through innuendo,
attitude and detail . . . Taylor is the master of small lives writ large
and he has carved a classic detective story' A bestselling crime
writer, Andrew Taylor has also worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk,
librarian, labourer and publisher's reader. He has written many
prize-winning crime novels and thrillers, including the William Dougal
crime series, the Lydmouth crime series, the ground-breaking Roth
Trilogy - which was televised as ITV's Fallen Angel
- and several standalone historical crime novels. His many awards
include the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2009 for sustained excellence
in crime writing, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America,
and the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, which
he has won twice - most recently for his bestselling Richard & Judy
Book Club novel, The American Boy
, which was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the
Decade. Bleeding Heart Square
won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar. Andrew Taylor is
also the crime fiction reviewer of the Spectator
. He lives with his wife in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of
England and Wales. To find out more, visit Andrew's website, www.
andrew-taylor. co. uk, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.
com/andrewjrtaylor
