Reverend Richard Coles - Murder At The Monastery

Murder At The Monastery

THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SERIES – AVAILABLE TO PREORDER

Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. However, it’s not long before a death occurs and Daniel thinks it might be murder. As dark secrets unfold, can he solve the mystery at the monastery without the help of Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo?


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A Death in the Parish

THE SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG

It’s been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel’s problems. 


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Murder Before Evensong

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.


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The Madness of Grief

A Memoir of Love and Loss

Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles’s life and work. But when his partner the Reverend David Coles died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise.


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Bringing in the Sheaves

Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest

After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to God and Christianity. So what is life like for the parson in Britain today?


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Fathomless Riches

Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

The Reverend Richard Coles’s warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs in the Communards to one devoted to God and Christianity.


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Lives of the ​Improbable Saints

From St Fillan of Munster, patron saint of the mentally ill, who read by the light of his miraculously glowing arm, to Santa Lucia, who tore out her eyes to dismiss the lascivious attentions of her would-be husband, here are nearly 200 classic stories of the saints of Christian legend.


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Legends of the Improbable Saints

Following the mass conversions sweeping Britain after the publication of Lives of the Improbable Saints, Dr Harrison and I thought it wise and expedient to retell yet more stories of the great ‘cloud of witnesses’ preserved in Christian tradition these two thousand years.


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