Murder Before Evensong: The instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller (Canon Clement Mystery)

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Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, a small village with its own stately home owned by Bernard de Floures.

Some controversy arises when he proposes installing a toilet in the church, which will mean getting rid of the back pews. Sadly I have to put this one as a DNF, I so wanted to like this book as I am a big fan of cozy murder mystery books in little villages but after 100 pages it just wasn't the one for me. I think the author has been quite clever in allowing lots of scope to extend the series and I am sure that I will follow this one as it was good fun and well written. Funerals were written about in a detailed way, complete with Bible quotes, and prayers were written out fully.

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. As I love crime novels – Ann Cleeves, Peter Lovesey, Anthony Horowitz, Elly Griffiths - I really wanted to like this, but it was disappointing. O facto de ser passado entre as décadas de 80 e 90 do século passado empresta-lhe um charme que gosto.

It is, as many other reviewers have said, very English and a large chunk of the book is taken up with church matters - the first murder doesn’t occur until 30% of the way through.

But the cast is overblown and not terribly distinct en masse, and includes a bunch of people who play no part in the story at all (why did we need the brother?