MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG

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, eversoslightly annoying Audrey and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn in the community, longburied secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of Champton. And then Anthony Bowness cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel Clement is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.