Clerical Errors

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ISBN 10: 1906288097 / ISBN 13: 9781906288099

Published by -, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clerical Errors
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906288097
• ISBN 13: 9781906288099
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Julia Smith is sitting peacefully in the Cathedral after her successful interview at the diocesan office when she hears an ear-splitting shriek coming from the chapel.

Mrs Thrigg, the cleaner, is frozen with shock and holding on to the white marble font for dear life.

A young man’s severed head is perched on the edge of its ample basin, his lifeless eyes staring right at her.

Fortunately for Julia, Deaconess Theodora Braithwaite decides to take her under her wing. Together they begin their investigations into this grisly murder.

But the deeper they dive, the more they realise all is not well in the once-idyllic town of Medewich.

Can Julia and Theodora uncover the sinner before they sin again?

From Kirkus Reviews

A debut novel set in a Church of England diocese centered on Medewich Cathedral and its adjacent living-and-working quarters for bishop, deacon, archdeacon, and their functionaries. Into this tightly knit, semicloistered world enters Julia Smith--far from her Australian home, fresh from Cambridge and a broken romance--seeking her first job as typist in the office of power-hungry Canon Charles Wheeler. She's hired--and is second on the scene when cleaning woman Mrs. Thrigg finds the severed head of Pastor Paul Gray in the chapel. Deaconess Theodora Braithewaite and the Canon's assistant, Ian Caretaker, do their best to guide Julia through the intricacies of church politics while the police, mostly in the person of thickheaded Inspector Tallboys, flounder through a mess of motives and timetables. A second murder, drugs, black magic, embezzlement, and some strange personalities surface before the not-totally- convincing culprit emerges. The plot is overcomplicated and overpopulated, but Greenwood has a fresh, clever, and civilized style. Her further work is anticipated with pleasure and interest. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.