A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs — Ellis Peters

“Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I”

read the epitaph composed by Jan and Morwenna Treverra before their quiet deaths centuries ago. But the pious portrait of content they conjured fragments when permission is granted for their tombs to be opened -- and an all too twentieth century corpse is found within.

An unfailing sense of strategic timing draws Detective Inspector George Felse to the scene, abandoning family, seaside and Cornish cream teas in favour of the vaults of Maymouth's little Saxon church. There, in the derelict seashore graveyard, a mystery unfolds, a trail of violence in Maymouth's history which casts shadows centuries long...