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Otis Joy is a very good vicar - he's attracted record-breaking congregations, his parishioners admire and respect him, and the village of Foxford is very content with its lot. What the citizens of Foxford don't realise is that their beloved parish priest is a murderer.
Joy had managed to convince his treasurer to channel a proportion of church funds into his own bank account, and when his bishop queries this arrangement Joy kills him - after all, such a trifling misdemeanour should not prevent him from carrying out his duties. However, it isn't the first time he's despatched 'busy-bodies' and rumours are beginning to circulate, so that when the husband of his new treasurer is found dead it looks as though he's taken one life too many.
Peter Lovesey amply demonstrates that he is the acknowledged master of the whodunnit in this deliciously complicated and satisfying mystery.
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Peter Lovesey's The Reaper, winner of the 2000 CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, is an extremely clever, exquisitely written story of a murderous rector who manages to earn a great deal of our sympathy while dramatically whittling down his flock in the Wiltshire village of Foxford. "If you knew Marcus Glastonbury, you would not expect him to appreciate anything out of the ordinary", Lovesey tells us right away about the local bishop who comes to chastise the handsome young rector for cooking the books at his last parish. And indeed, Bishop Glastonbury is no match for the Reverend Otis Joy, a wickedly intelligent serial killer (the bishop becomes his second victim, framed to look like a suicide and a sex pervert) who also happens to be a crackerjack priest. That's why the good folk of Foxford, especially the women, find it hard to swallow the gossip about Reverend Joy that gradually builds up like a winter ground fog. One local housewife, Rachel Jansen, who surprises the rector naked under an apron while he cleans up after killing the bishop, becomes such a strong supporter that she risks losing not only her life but also her immortal soul. Lovesey deftly plants deceptive clues and raises false hopes about Reverend Joy's fate, all the while painting a picture of a town and a church congregation so real that they leap off the page.--Alex Freeman
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Larky and deft; very funny, too. (LITERARY REVIEW)
No one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy L. Sayers (MAIL ON SUNDAY)
One of the very best of the current generation of crime writers (EVENING STANDARD)
Satisfyingly complex and suspenseful. (DAILY MAIL)
No one has done this kind of thing better since Dorothy L. Sayers (MAIL ON SUNDAY)
One of the very best of the current generation of crime writers (EVENING STANDARD)
Satisfyingly complex and suspenseful. (DAILY MAIL)
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- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0751530395
- ISBN 13 9780751530391
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