Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1 (Grantchester, #1)

by James Runcie

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Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the colour of hazelnuts and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot.

Together with his roguish friend, Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty. Nonetheless, he manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket, warm beer, hot jazz and the works of Tolstoy and Shakespeare - as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior.

From the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this is the first of The Grantchester Mysteries, six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history - from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 to the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981 - featuring the unforgettable vicar and sleuth, Sidney Chambers.
  • ISBN10 1408826410
  • ISBN13 9781408826416
  • Publish Date 10 May 2012 (first published 24 April 2012)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 31 July 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 400
  • Language English