Max Tudor #7
Minotaur Books
April 2019
On Sale: April 16, 2019
Featuring: Max Tudor
304 pages ISBN: 1250302021 EAN: 9781250302021 Kindle: B075WXP76H Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) 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, won’t 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. Edwold’s 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 Duxter’s husband rallies quickly from the double
tragedy—too quickly, it is murmured in the village. Lord
Duxter already has offered his manor house to a motley crew
of writers, including Max’s wife Awena, for his writers’
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?