The Archdeacon is under pressure because of gossip that he was the responsible for the death of his wife.

I like his lovely warm brown cords though, and the textures of clothes that he's wearing - they look soft, lush for running your hands across, that sort of thing.But despite their different backgrounds, all the men meticulously fasten their seat belts before each journey. It doesn't seem right working at the college, taking money from them, accepting all their kindness and never attending any of the services in the church. Published in 2001, this is the eleventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, and a slightly odd addition to the series. I thought of the first body I'd seen, all those years ago, as an eighteen-year-old probationer, the first body I'd laid out. I have never suffered from nightmares before, not even when I was a student nurse and first encountered death.

He becomes one of the essential features of a good detective story - a victim whose death readers do not mourn. They've even provided a lightweight trolley so that I'm not tempted to carry heavy bundles of linen. There are some bizarre storylines in this novel, including a priest who went to prison for crimes against young boys, who P. What does Daniel Weyman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?I suppose it would have been sensible to drive on to the college but, instead, he turned the car and we got out at the steps to the beach. The sea is eating away the sandy cliffs year by year, and sometimes I stand on the edge looking out to sea and can imagine a great tidal wave rearing up, white and glistening, racing towards the shore to crash over the turrets and towers, the church and the cottages, and wash us all away. kindest' of sexual offenders by offering up that old chestnut that while he may have illicitly fondled the first two boys, the others who came forward with evidence were just lying.