Simon Parke was a scriptwriter for Spitting Image and a Sony award-winning radio writer before working for three years in a supermarket. An Oxford graduate in history, a priest in the Church of England for 20 years and former Daily Mail columnist, his previous books include two Abbot Peter Mysteries, A Vicar, Crucified and A Psychiatrist, Screams, and Pippa’s Progress: A Pilgrim’s Journey to Heaven.