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Carregando... The Snares of Death (1992)de Kate Charles
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Evangelical pastor Bob Dexter takes over the staunchly Anglo-Catholic church of St. Mary the Virgin, South Barsham and proceeds to make a lot of enemies. He is found dead in the church with his head bashed in. The young priest accused of the murder asks for David Middleton-Brown to act as his solicitor. David is convinced he didn't do it. But who did? A gripping and enjoyable mystery. I did wonder Bob Dexter was too unpleasant to be believable but I suppose he had to be for there to be that many suspects. I'm a little disappointed with the direction the overall story arc featuring the detective David Middleton-Brown and his sidekick Lucy Kingsley is taking. The Anglican Church is one church that runs the gamut of ways of worship from extreme evangelicalism to happy-clappy services and finally at the opposite pole the Anglo-Catholics. On the one hand a minister refers to himself as simple Bob Dexter, in the middle road there are the Vicars and then at the other end the celebrants are called priests and answer to Father Mark for instance. This mystery revolves around a situation where although east is east and so on the twain is trying to meet and in this instance the results are disastrous. Beneath all the dog collars are mortal men who join the church for a variety of reasons, not always responding to a call. Some of these holy molys are far from even showing any Christian charity. The result is a fascinating look at how human vices lead to murder. I enjoyed the book and look forward to reading another in the series soon. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Everyone agrees that Bob Dexter, the prominent Evangelical clergyman, has a great deal of personal charisma. Those who know him realise that he also has an unshakable faith in his own righteousness, and a real talent for rubbing people up the wrong way. It is no surprise, therefore, that someone should want to kill him. In fact, when the Reverend Dexter moves to a small Norfolk parish, traditionally Anglo-Catholic, and begins remoulding it in his own image, his distraught parishioners are not the only ones with good reason to want to remove him. And there are secrets in his seemingly tranquil family life that Dexter does not even begin to suspect - until the fateful and eventful day of his death. Solicitor David Middleton-Brown and his artist-friend Lucy Kingsley step in to investigate. Their search for the truth culminates at the annual National Pilgrimage to Walsingham, where Anglo-Catholic pomp clashes with heated Evangelical protest, and feelings run perilously high. Too late, perhaps, David realises the danger: will he be in time to prevent a second murder? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I found the novel slow going and the murder didn't happen until 2/3 through the book. It was never explained why the Anglican evangelical movement was so wacky! In the U.S., evangelical pastors are not this extreme except in a few well known cases. There were things about Middleton-Brown that were alluded to but unclear to me and were probably explained in the first book of the series. An average read and one for fans of Episcopal and Anglican priest mysteries ( )