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  • Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

  • Grantchester, Book 1
  • By: James Runcie
  • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
  • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

By: James Runcie
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
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Bloomsbury presents Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death by James Runcie, read by Joe Jameson.

The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective.

It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clerical detective. He can go where the police cannot.

Together with his roguish friend, inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewelry theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a jazz promoter's daughter, and a shocking art forgery that puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty, but he nonetheless manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket, warm beer, and hot jazz-as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior.

With a whiff of Agatha Christie and a touch of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, The Grantchester Mysteries introduces a wonderful new hero into the world of detective fiction.

©2012 James Runcie (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Very good mystery stories and I enjoy the characters in the story. Well written and good plots.

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