Max Tudor #7
Minotaur Books
April 2018
On Sale: April 17, 2018
304 pages ISBN: 1250092809 EAN: 9781250092809 Kindle: B075WXP76H Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Agatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers and cozy fans with her critically acclaimed mysteries. In Prior's Wood, featuring handsome spy-turned-cleric Max Tudor, wonโt disappoint.
Newly returned from investigating a murder in Monkslip-super-Mare, handsome Max Tudor wants nothing more than to settle back into his predictable routine as vicar of St. Edwoldโs Church in the village of Nether Monkslip. But the flow of his sermon on Bathsheba is interrupted when the lady of the local manor house is found in a suicide pact with her young lover.
Lady Duxterโs husband rallies quickly from the double tragedyโtoo quickly, it is murmured in the village. Lord Duxter already has offered his manor house to a motley crew of writers, including Maxโs wife Awena, for his writersโ retreat, and he insists the show must go on.
When a young girl goes missing and a crime writer becomes a target, DCI Cotton asks Max to lend his MI5 expertise to the investigation.
Many suspects emerge as the scope of the investigation widens beyond the writers to villagers who had crossed swords with the insufferably smug crime author. But Max begins to wonder: was the attack on the writer only part of a broader conspiracy of silence?
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