The Reverend Richard Coles in Conversation
Richard Coles is a writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co-presented Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 for eleven years and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas Masterchef, Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, he scored a lamentably low mark for a Paso Doble.
Richard writes regularly for the Sunday Times, and is the author of half a dozen books, including a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches, and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief, after the death of his partner, Rev David Coles. His fiction novels, Murder Before Evensong and A Death in the Parish, the first two books in the Canon Clement Mystery series, were both instant number 1 Sunday Times bestsellers. His latest novel is Murder at the Monastery.
Richard is Patron of Greatwell Homes, a Housing Association providing social and affordable housing in east Northants, and is Chancellor of the University of Northampton.
Murder at the Monastery
Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't allow the break he needs, for tensions are building there too. A mysterious death occurs, and Daniel thinks it might be murder. Meanwhile back at Champton, Daniel is the subject of village gossip, his mother Audrey is up to something again, there's trouble at the dress shop, trouble up at the big house, and the puppies are running riot. As dark secrets unfold, can Daniel solve the mystery at the monastery without the help of Detective Seargeant Neil Vanloo?
Praise for Murder at the Monastery
'Whodunnit fans can give praise and rejoice' Ian Rankin
'Charming and funny' Observer
‘Even better than I knew it would be' India Knight
‘The unlikely heir to Barbara Pym' Telegraph
‘Beautifully written and a warm, funny joy from start to finish.’ - Sarah Millican
'Quintessentially English' Sunday Express
‘An absolute joy from cover to cover. Praise be!’ - Adam Kay
'Beautifully written, charming, funny, intelligent and mordant too' Sunday Times
‘Like a walk in the country on a warm summer's evening’ Janice Hallett
‘A brilliant crime romp’ Woman’s Weekly
‘Perfect for those who like their cosy crime to have a cutting edge.’ - Ben Aaronovitch