Till Death Us Do Part

Weddings can be murder…

Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull.

But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.

As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there’s one thing Clare does know, it’s people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands.

However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?

Rev. Penny will be in conversation with the bookshop’s own mistress of the crime section (Miss Scarlett as I like to think of her) Jo Farrell - who is as familiar with a good crime novel as she is a skein of hand-died yarn. What will these two ladies hatch on the evening…? Book in to find out!

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"A new star in the crime-writing firmament" Elly Griffiths

“Take a pew for murder most reverend!…deliciously twisty…a cosy crime treat ideal for summer and perfect for fans of Rev. Richard Coles and The Vicar of Dibley.” Janice Hallett

TICKETS

Tickets are FREE but limited. Please email Jules on jules@northbooks.co.uk or pop into the shop to reserve your place.

At North Books, 4 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye on Friday 5 September, 5-6.30pm.

THE AUTHOR

Rev. Penny Stephens was a vicar in a village parish before working as a hospice chaplain in East London and Kent. She now takes services in the Diocese of Rochester, where she is an Honorary Canon of the Cathedral. Till Death Us Do Part is Penny’s debut novel although she is well underway with the second case for Rev. Clare to be set in Cornwall.

Till Death Us Do Part, published by Quercus in July, £16.99 (hardback, pp368)