Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4

Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4 by Runcie, James. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781632861030.

The fourth in The Grantchester Mystery Series, and the inspiration for the primetime PBS/Masterpiece television series, Grantchester. Now on Netflix The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960s Cambridge. On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchesters church, convinced he has murdered his wife. Sidney and his wife Hildegard go for a shooting weekend in the country and find their hostess has a sinister burn on her neck. Sidneys friend Amanda receives poison pen letters when at last she appears to be approaching matrimony. A firm of removal men accidentally drop a Steinway piano on a musicians head outside a Cambridge college. During a cricket match, a group of schoolboys blow up their school Science Block. On a family holiday in Florence, Sidney is accused of the theft of a priceless painting. Meanwhile, on the home front, Sidneys new curate Malcolm seems set to become rather irritatingly popular with the parish; his baby girl Anna learns to walk and talk; Hildegard longs to get an au pair and Sidney is offered a promotion. Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful, moving and deeply humane, these six new stories are bound to delight the clerical detectives many fans.