Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632861030)

The fourth in The Grantchester Mystery Series, and the inspiration for the primetime PBS/Masterpiece television series, Grantchester.

The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge.

On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester's church, convinced he has murdered his wife. Sidney and his wife Hildegard go for a shooting weekend in the country and find their hostess has a sinister burn on her neck. Sidney's friend Amanda receives poison pen letters when at last she appears to be approaching matrimony. A firm of removal men 'accidentally' drop a Steinway piano on a musician's head outside a Cambridge college. During a cricket match, a group of schoolboys blow up their school Science Block. On a family holiday in Florence, Sidney is accused of the theft of a priceless painting.

Meanwhile, on the home front, Sidney's new curate Malcolm seems set to become rather irritatingly popular with the parish; his baby girl Anna learns to walk and talk; Hildegard longs to get an au pair and Sidney is offered a promotion.

Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful, moving and deeply humane, these six new stories are bound to delight the clerical detective's many fans.

Author: James Runcie
ISBN-10: 1632861038
ISBN-13: 9781632861030
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 03/30/2015
Christianity Today 07/01/2015 pg. 86