A riveting psychological mystery by a well-established writer, featuring an intriguing sleuth in the form of a retired Abbot
Former script writer for Spitting Image and Sony Award winner, Simon Parke is author of the Abbot Peter murder mystery series and the forthcoming historical novel The Soldier, the Gaoler, the Spy and her Lover (February 2017). Away from publishing, Simon is CEO of The Mind Clinic and enjoys the loneliness of the long distance runner.
Abbot Peter is a true original.
*Daily Mail*
Highly original . . . very different from most detective
stories.
*Clerical Detectives*
To a long list of much-loved detective pairings, which includes
Holmes and Watson, Poirot and Hastings, and Morse and Lewis, we
must now add Abbot Peter and Tamsin Shah.
*Church Times*
Reviews of previous Abbot Peter mysteries, A Director’s Cut (2014),
A Psychiatrist Screams (2013) and A Vicar Crucified (2013, all
DLT):
‘A nicely plotted, swiftly paced yarn, full of teases . . . Parke
evokes the creepiness of the setting marvellously. He has a
stunning ear for the way people actually speak, with pages of
uninterrupted dialogue flashing by with the speed of a radio
play.’
*Church Times*
An engrossing page-turning thriller, propelling the reader through
its multiple twists and turns and keeping one guessing until the
final unpredictable – yet satisfying – denouement.
*Irish Independent*
It’s not often a book keeps me up late three nights in a row, but A
Vicar, Crucified by author Simon Parke kept sleep at bay . . .
where lesser books have failed.
*Simon Jenkins, Ship of Fools*
The characters that Parke pens are convincing, and the dialogue is
rich and entertaining.
*Church Times*
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