Murder Before EvensongThe first novel in the Reverend Richard Coles' Canon Clement Mystery series 'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs et voila!' Dawn French Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. 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. When Daniel announces a plan to install a

Gaul - The Roman Empire is on the brink

While Dougie seeks truth wherever he can find it

driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library

thwart the plots

Then back to the imagining

keep it quiet

He is confronted by a brilliant but unsophisticated Greek whose fertile inventions

victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts

But something was wrong

powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines

Miranda and her daughter Emma have nowhere left to turn

But as he starts to search for the other pieces of the puzzle