James Runcie is an award-winning filmmaker and the author of Sidney Chambers series, which is now the major PBS series Grantchester. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in the Grantchester Mysteries series, was published in 2012, soon followed by Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil, Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins, and Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love.
James Runcie has written the coziest of cozy murder mysteries.
Taken individually, each of these clerical whodunits poses a clever
puzzle for armchair detectives. Viewed as a collective study of
British life as it was lived when Elizabeth II first ascended the
throne, these stories present a consistently charming and
occasionally cutting commentary on 'a postwar landscape full of
industry, promise and concrete. - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
Book Review
The author is a master wordsmith, writing in delicate,
lyrical prose . . . Readers definitely are in for a treat when they
meet this gentlemanly but worldly man of the cloth. I cannot but
hope there are many more cases in his future. - Mystery
Scene
Chambers turns out to be a winning clergyman-sleuth,
and Runcie's literary authority is repeatedly demonstrated in the
construction of his elegant tales . . . There is no denying the
winning charm of these artfully fashioned mysteries. -
Independent
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