James Runcie 
Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death [EPUB ebook] 
Grantchester Mysteries 1

‘Inspector Morse would appear to have a rival’ — Scotland on Sunday’A perfect accompaniment to a sunny afternoon, a hammock and a glass of Pimms’ — Guardian’An undiluted pleasure’ — Scotsman_______________Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot.Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year’s Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty…_______________’A charmingly effective tale of detection … a satisfyingly old-fashioned read’ — The Times’No detective since Father Brown has been more engaging than Canon Sidney Chambers’ — Salley Vickers’The coziest of cozy murder mysteries’ — New York Times Book Review’Full of witty phrases to delight the reader’ — Peggy Woodford, Church Times’Gentle criminal entertainment with a pleasantly old-fashioned feel to it’ — Andrew Taylor, Spectator