- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (23 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1439157367
- ISBN-13: 978-1439157367
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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‘He plots a mystery as well as any writer alive’
Time Magazine
‘Barnard never disappoints. The psychological suspense is chilling’
The Times
‘Robert Barnard retails this finely suspenseful tale, incorporating the Hitchockian awkwardness of disposing of a body, with spellbinding step-by-step matter-of-factness’
Sunday Times
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England's celebrated, multiple-award-winning master crime novelist returns with a witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference. Father Christopher Pardoe is a good priest. He cares about his parishioners. He is also a human being -- and is thus saddled with man's inherent weaknesses. Is it a bit odd, then, how much time the good Father has been spending at the house of a certain young, single mother called Julie Norris? And why, during each of his visits, are Julie's bedroom curtains always closed? Julie looks to be pregnant again. Just who could the father be? As nasty rumors begin to scorch the parish phone lines, Father Pardoe is suspended from St. Catherine's, and Cosmo Horrocks, the West Yorkshire Chronicle's shameless, muckraking journalist, exploits the story in a big way. Nothing goes over better than a juicy sex-and-the-church scandal, except, perhaps, murder. Do Father Pardoe and Julie protest too much? Why did Julie's parents throw her out and disown her? Is she really as bad as they say? And what, exactly, does Cosmo Horrocks hear in that London-to-Leeds dining car that makes him tingle with excitement? A tale of chastity besmirched? This story could make his year. But will it lead to tragedy? And, if so, whose? When Inspector Mike Oddie and Sergeant Charlie Peace are called in to investigate a murder, they are saddened and surprised by the raw emotions -- the hate, the fear -- they find in the outwardly peaceful town of Shipley. There may be only one killer, but there are many others who must share the town's guilt and, perhaps, one day start the process of healing. Rich with eccentric characters, crisp dialogue, stylish prose, and perceptive insights into human nature, Unholy Dying is vintage Barnard, acknowledged master of suspense.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Robert Barnard, currently lives with his wife in Yorkshire. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels.
Cosmo Horrocks was as happy as a pig in the proverbial manure. He had just come up with the juiciest story he'd had in years. Being an investigative journalist was not always what it was cracked up to be. In fact most of the time you were grubbing about in the detritus of other people's lives, but this story made it all worth it.
It had everything that the public were interested in. Religion, the man was a Catholic priest, sex to titillate their grubby little minds. He was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother. He was also thought to have `donated' parish funds to her. The parish of St. Catherine's in Shipley is torn apart by the scandal and the following investigations which reveal shady doings in high places . . .
Cosmo Horrocks was as happy as a pig in the proverbial manure. He had just come up with the juiciest story he'd had in years. Being an investigative journalist was not always what it was cracked up to be. In fact most of the time you were grubbing about in the detritus of other people's lives, but this story made it all worth it.
It had everything that the public were interested in. Religion, the man was a Catholic priest, sex to titillate their grubby little minds. He was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother. He was also thought to have `donated' parish funds to her. The parish of St. Catherine's in Shipley is torn apart by the scandal and the following investigations which reveal shady doings in high places . . .
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Nothing of any interest happens. No sense of drama, no suspense. The weakest of mysteries.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Robert Barnard, currently lives with his wife in Yorkshire. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels.
Cosmo Horrocks was as happy as a pig in the proverbial manure. He had just come up with the juiciest story he'd had in years. Being an investigative journalist was not always what it was cracked up to be. In fact most of the time you were grubbing about in the detritus of other people's lives, but this story made it all worth it.
It had everything that the public were interested in. Religion, the man was a Catholic priest, sex to titillate their grubby little minds. He was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother. He was also thought to have `donated' parish funds to her. The parish of St. Catherine's in Shipley is torn apart by the scandal and the following investigations which reveal shady doings in high places . . .
Cosmo Horrocks was as happy as a pig in the proverbial manure. He had just come up with the juiciest story he'd had in years. Being an investigative journalist was not always what it was cracked up to be. In fact most of the time you were grubbing about in the detritus of other people's lives, but this story made it all worth it.
It had everything that the public were interested in. Religion, the man was a Catholic priest, sex to titillate their grubby little minds. He was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother. He was also thought to have `donated' parish funds to her. The parish of St. Catherine's in Shipley is torn apart by the scandal and the following investigations which reveal shady doings in high places . . .
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