In prior's wood

In prior's wood

G. M. Malliet, 1951-

eAudio - 2018

Newly returned from investigating a murder in Monkslip-super-Mare, former M15 agent Max Tudor wants nothing more than to settle back into his predictable routine as vicar of St. Edwold's Church in the village of Nether Monkslip. But the flow of his sermon on Bathsheba is interrupted when Lady Duxter is found dead after having made a suicide pact with her lover. Lady Duxter's husband rallies quickly from the double tragedy-too quickly, it is murmured in the village. Having already planned a writer's retreat at his manor house, he insists the show must go on. But when a young girl goes missing and a crime writer becomes a target, DCI Cotton asks Max to lend his MI5 expertise to the investigation. Many suspects emerge as the sco...pe of the investigation widens beyond the writers to villagers who have crossed swords with the insufferably smug crime author. Soon Max begins to wonder if the attack on the writer was part of a broader conspiracy...

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Subjects
Vicars, Parochial > England > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Police > England > Fiction.
Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2018.
Language
English
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Main Author
G. M. Malliet, 1951- (author)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Michael (Michael J.) Page (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 56 min.)) : digital
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781520098227
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Booklist Review

Malliet continues her top-notch spy-turned-cleric Max Tudor series (after Devil's Breath, 2017) with a seventh intricately structured mystery. Midsomer-like Nether Monkslip has a low-density population that has seen an alarming spike in murders since Max became its vicar. He views this as an extraordinary coincidence, but his bishop seems to think that Providence has sent Max to deal with an outbreak of evil that requires pastoral intervention. If, indeed, there are otherworldly influences at work here, it is Malliet's ability to channel Agatha Christie. Miss Marple would have the time of her life helping Max unravel a series of deaths involving the village's elderly matriarch, the newly seated lord of the manor, his wife and her young lover, and the lover's librarian wife. Fold in an assortment of Jane Eyre references, tarot lore, and Max's Wiccan wife, and readers will find a tasty tale that doesn't disappoint. Perfect for fans of the wickedly funny cozy writers M. C. Beaton and Catriona McPherson, as well as devotees of Louise Penny who appreciate a redemptive ending.--Murphy, Jane Copyright 2018 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Malliet's solid seventh Max Tudor mystery (after 2017's Devil's Breath) finds Max, a "dashing MI5 agent turned clergyman with a talent for solving crime," hoping for a respite from crime-solving in the quintessential English town of Nether Monkslip. Of course, that wish is dashed after the bodies of a man and a woman turn up, the victims of an apparent suicide pact, in Prior's Wood, which was the site of the disappearance of the local squire's teenage daughter in Victorian times. Skeptical of things as they appear, Max and his friend on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Cotton, pursue the possibility of murder, which leads them to the household of Lord Duxter, a publisher who was knighted for his contributions to the arts and who founded a writers' retreat in Nether Monkslip. There are some arch touches (as with a character baffled by the title of one of Malliet's own books), but this whodunit should satisfy most cozy fans. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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