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Till Death Us Do Part
- Author
- Penny Stephens
- Narrator
- Helen Keeley
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 17 July 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
The charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.
Weddings can be murder . . .
Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull.
But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.
As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands.
However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Critics Review
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A new star in the crime-writing firmament
Elly Griffiths
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Take a pew for murder most reverend! . . . deliciously twisty . . . a cosy crime treat ideal for summer and perfect for fans of Reverend Richard Coles and The Vicar of Dibley
Janice Hallett
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What a cracking read!. . . I loved the way Penny Stephens wove murder and mayhem amongst all the marital fanfare . . . the Rev. Clare is great!
J. M. Hall
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Brilliantly fun and well plotted, with some wonderful characters . . . I was totally captivated
Laura Marshall
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A wonderful and gripping debut . . . Rev. Penny Stephens' writing and storytelling is sublime and she's definitely one to watch
Graham Bartlett
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A promising debut . . . that might make you think twice about building a treehouse
Lesley Thomson
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There couldn't be any cosier crime than a new series written by a vicar and church chaplain, with a cleric, the Rev Clare Brakespear, as her sleuth. It's classic Christie country
The Peterborough Telegraph
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Gripping . . . brings to the fore fascinating spiritual tensions and moral dilemmas
Church Times
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Details
- Author
- Penny Stephens
- Narrator
- Helen Keeley
- Duration
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529441451
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
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