Ambition, even among the clergy, can be a dangerous desire. Father Gabriel Neville, priest of London's gorgeous St. Anne's Church, is planning to reach the topmost tier of the Church of England. Until the blackmail starts. His only hope is his old...
A Book of Psalms Mystery The ancient battle between High and Low Church breaks out anew in a little English town. The first casualties for High are the statues and rosary beads of the church of St. Mary the Virgin. For Low, it is the reformist vic...
Death at the Deanery -- sudden and unnatural death. Someone should have seen it coming. Even before Stuart timer arrives as the new Dean of Malbury Cathedral shock waves reverberate around the tightly knit Cathedral Close, heralding sweeping chang...
'A woman priest at St Margaret's? Over my dead body!' Dolly Topping, head of the national organisation 'Ladies Opposed to Women Priests' and wife of one of the churchwardens, feels that strongly about it. It is unfortunate, therefore, that Father ...
In Walston things are anything but tranquil, but greater shocks are yet to come... `Peaceful' is the most common entry in the visitors' book at fifteenth-century St Michael's Church, with its glorious angel roof and its medieval Doom painting. But...
A MAN'S TOUCH Enigmatic and seductive, he is the rugged hero of your most intimate dreams -- a sensual stranger who can fulfill your every desire. Now, discover the secrets of his own yearning heart as a beautiful woman sweeps him away on a jo...
Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...
Margaret Phillips, Archdeacon of Saxwell, is in the prime of her life. She effortlessly combines her clerical duties in the church with a rock-solid marriage to the charming and devoted Hal. Gervase Finch moves with his fiercely protective wife i...
Married to the perfect man, and with a baby on the way, motherless Tessa looks forward to getting to know her new mother-in-law. But before that can happen, Linda Nicholls is murdered, and Tessa is determined to find out why.Her quest for answers pl...
April 1989: sisters Alison and Jacquie Barnett take a holiday to Greece that neither of them will ever forget.When Jacquie's father dies, she discovers he has split everything equally with her sister, whom no one has seen for eleven years. And Jacqui...
Life in the clergy is quiet, respectful, peacefulor so Callie Anson believes when she begins her new job as curate to the Reverend Brian Stanford at All Saints' Church in Paddington. Little does she realize how wrong she could be. After the traumati...
Life may not be getting any easier for curate Callie Anson, but it is definitely getting more interesting. Her relationship with policeman Marco Lombardi grows ever warmer, even though he seems to be keeping her away from his close Italian family. Th...
In a culture obsessed with celebrity, baby Muffin's death is big news. Crib death? Or something more sinister? Everyone wants to know, including the police. Whatever the truth, the bereaved parents--celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz--live in curat...
The Reverend Callie Anson should have learned her lesson by now: revisiting the past is seldom a good idea. But she succumbs to peer pressure and attends a reunion at her theological college in Cambridge, where she is forced to confront painful memor...
For lovers of British mystery, you can't top KC to shine a humane yet revealing light on crime, faith, family, love and human frailty in her compelling mysteries. Highly recommended!—Deborah Crombie, New York Times bestselling authorWith a wed...