- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Collins Crime; First edition edition (18 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007102925
- ISBN-13: 978-0007102921
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,703,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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‘Robert Barnard is always original, never repeats himself and has a delectable wit’ Jessica Mann, Daily Telegraph
Cosmo Horrocks was over the moon. This was the juiciest story he’d had in years. In his job as an investigative journalist he spent his working days grubbing through the garbage bins of other people’s lives (undeterred by the fact that his own wouldn’t bear too much investigation), but this one seemed to have everything: religion – the man was a Catholic priest; sex – he was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother; money – he was thought to have channelled parish funds in her direction. All the story lacked was mystery, but when it acquired that too Cosmo soon found himself out of his depth.
The parish of St. Catherine’s in Shipley is torn apart by the scandal, and by the secretive processes of its investigation which reveal dysfunctional families, shady doings in high places, and the brittle shell that respectability hides itself behind. When the truth is finally learned about Pardoe’s supposed sins, and about the murder which they have brought in their wake, both parish and town have the wraps whipped away from their apparently happy and respectable existence.
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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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