Rien ne va plus dans le village de Champton. Un nouveau pasteur vient d'être nommé pour assister Daniel Clement dans son travail. Et il est loin de faire l'unanimité avec ses manières très « modernes », ses vêtements trop voyants et surtout ses enfants particulièrement insupportables. Mais l'enfer se déchaîne vraiment sur le village lorsque le fils du nouveau pasteur est retrouvé mort, la gorge tranchée dans une chapelle désaffectée. Le crime ressemble à s'y méprendre à un meurtre rituel... Et les suspects ne manquent pas. La victime a-t-elle été tuée pour une histoire de drogue ? Ou bien par un membre de son étrange groupe d'amis ? Obligé encore une fois de mener l'enquête, le pasteur Daniel Clement va avoir bien du mal à ramener le calme parmi ses ouailles...
Branle-bas de combat dans le petit village de Champton : le pasteur Daniel Clement propose d'installer des toilettes dans l'église. Des toilettes ? Shocking ! Aux yeux de bien des paroissiens, c'est un sacrilège, un véritable scandale. La situation ne s'arrange pas lorsqu'un homme est retrouvé dans l'église, la gorge tranchée avec un sécateur. Et les meurtres s'enchaînent comme les scones à l'heure du thé... il y a vraiment urgence à ramener la paix dans le village où les commérages vont bon train. S'il ne veut pas que son troupeau s'égare, le pasteur Daniel Clement doit démasquer le meurtrier. Mais entre une famille d'aristocrates désoeuvrés, des grenouilles de bénitier aigries et le fils d'un Lord aux allures de punk, il dispose d'une belle brochette de suspects. La mission du pasteur risque bien de se transformer en un véritable chemin de croix...
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Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives 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 lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.
And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church. As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his community together... and catch a killer.
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CANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK...
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His mother - headstrong, fearless Audrey - is obviously up to something, something she is determined to keep from him. And she is not the only one. And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing...
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FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs in the Communards to one devoted to God and Christianity. The result is one of the most unusual and readable life stories of recent times, and has the power to shock as well as to console.
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When the Reverend Richard Coles' partner died suddenly, shortly before Christmas in 2019, what came next took Richard by surprise. Despite his years of experience assisting his parishioners in examining life's moral questions, Richard now found he needed guidance himself. Much about grief was unexpected: the volume of 'sadmin' that must be undertaken, how much harder it is travelling solo for work, the pain of typing a text message to your partner - then remembering they are gone. This deeply personal account of life after grief will resonate, unforgettably, long after the final page has been turned.
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After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to God and Christianity. So what is life like for the parson in Britain today?
From his ordination, through Advent and Christmas to Lent and Easter, Reverend Coles gives us a unique insight into his daily experience in the ministry, with all the joy, hope, drama and difficulty that entails. Written with extraordinary charm and compassion, Bringing in the Sheaves will inspire and inform all who read it.
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