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Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play. As the investigation unfolds, Max becomes more intricately involved. Memories he'd rather not revisit are stirred, evoking the demons from the past which led him to Nether Monkslip.
For fall reading, I'm pushing Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet. It's the first in a series and the main character is a Church of England priest who's a former secret agent who can't entirely escape his old life. It's not quite a cozy as I think of them, because the characters and plotting are more complex and really develop from book to book. But it's an English village mystery, which is close enough for me! If you like audiobooks, the audio editions of this series are all excellent! ( )
Love the premise of a former British spy settling in for the quiet life as a priest in a small parish only to have the most annoying and forceful woman in his flock get murdered almost under his nose. Looking forward to the first in another Maillet series Death of a Cozy Writer. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"I Sing a Song of the Saints of God"
And one was a soldier, and one was a priest, And one was slain by a fierce wild beast: And there's not any reason, no, not the least Why I shouldn't be one too.
--Hymn lyrics by Lesbia Scott, 1929
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This book is dedicated to the members of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI) and to the memory of Mrs. B. who loved detective stories.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Wanda Batton-Smythe, head of the Women's Institute of Nether Monkslip, liked to say she was not one to mince words.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This time, he felt in his heart, would be different.
Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play. As the investigation unfolds, Max becomes more intricately involved. Memories he'd rather not revisit are stirred, evoking the demons from the past which led him to Nether Monkslip.
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