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Publication Date: 4 Jun 2015 |
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Publisher: Marylebone House |
Page Count: 300 |
Author: Kate Charles |
ISBN-13: 9781910674093, 9781910674109 |
The Snares of Death
The second in the much-loved Book of Psalms mysteries.
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Summary of The Snares of Death
Press Reviews
The writing is elegant . . . to match the apparently normal little English town beneath which lurks the kind of emotion that stirred murder throughout the works of Agatha Christie.
There is real tenderness . . . in her detailed portraits of the faithful, from the sensitive student of church architecture who functions as sleuth to the dear old church biddies who arrange the flowers and spread the gossip with as much relish as the witches in Macbeth.
Charles deftly mixes religious rites and politics with her own insight into human behavior. Discerning mystery readers pray for good books like this one.
It is no surprise, therefore, that someone should want to kill him. In fact, when the Reverend Dexter moves to a small Norfolk parish, traditionally Anglo-Catholic, and begins remoulding it in his own image, his distraught parishioners are not the only ones with good reason to want to remove him. And there are secrets in his seemingly tranquil family life that Dexter does not even begin to suspect – until the fateful and eventful day of his death.
Solicitor David Middleton-Brown and his artist-friend Lucy Kingsley step in to investigate. Their search for the truth culminates at the annual National Pilgrimage to Walsingham, where Anglo-Catholic pomp clashes with heated Evangelical protest, and feelings run perilously high. Too late, perhaps, David realises the danger: will he be in time to prevent a second murder?