Wicked autumn
By: G.M. Malliet
Series: Max Tudor -- 1; Max Tudor -- 1.
Publisher: C & R Crime
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781472106230
Subjects: American; Murder; Investigation; LITERARY CRITICISM; General; Parochial Vicars; Fiction
Description: Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. Now he has found a measure of peace among urban escapees and yoga practitioners, artists and crafters and New Agers. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play. Max has ministered to the community long enough to be familiar with the tangled alliances and animosities among the residents, but this tragedy surprises and confounds him. It is impossible to believe anyone in his lovely village capable of the crime, and yet given the victim, he must acknowledge that almost everyone had probably fantasized about killing Wanda Batton-Smythe. As the investigation unfolds, Max becomes more intricately involved. Memories he'd rather not revisit are stirred, evoking the demons from the past which led him to Nether Monkslip.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Cast of Characters; Chapter 1. The Women; Chapter 2. The Vicar; Chapter 3. The Village; Chapter 4. Out . . .; Chapter 5. ... and About; Chapter 6. Help Us; Chapter 7. Harvest Fayre; Chapter 8. Harvest Fayre II; Chapter 9. Grim Reaper; Chapter 10. Law and Order: Pod People; Chapter 11. Baptizing the Teddy Bear; Chapter 12. Legend; Chapter 13. Medicine Man; Chapter 14. Temptation; Chapter 15. The Baker; Chapter 16. The Major; Chapter 17. At Home; Chapter 18. The Antiquarian; Chapter 19. What's Cooking; Chapter 20. Miss Pitchford Disposes.; title: Chapter 21. GoddessspellChapter 22. Quandary; Chapter 23. St Edwold's; Chapter 24. Acolyte Down; Chapter 25. After the Funeral; Chapter 26. Revelations; Chapter 27. At the Horseshoe; Chapter 28. Jolie Laide; Epilogue.