A Vicar, Crucified
A Vicar, Crucified by Simon Parke is a mystery novel published by Darton Longman & Todd in 2013. This edition spans 288 pages and is presented in English. The story follows Abbot Peter, who has transitioned from leading a remote monastery in the Sinai desert to retirement in the stormy English seaside town of Stormhaven. When the local vicar is found dead, crucified on a cross in the vestry, Abbot Peter is called upon to serve as a Special Witness investigator, collaborating with Detective Inspector Tamsin Shah, who is revealed to be his long-lost niece.
Readers will encounter a complex web of suspects within the church community, including a flower-arranger, a bishop, a curate, a youth worker, and a treasurer, all of whom were present at the meeting before the vicar’s death. As Abbot Peter delves deeper into the investigation, he grapples with the mystical nine-point Enneagram, a concept tied to his father’s legacy, which may hold the key to solving the case. The narrative unfolds with additional deaths, heightening the tension as the mystery progresses.
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Abbot Peter has recently swapped his failing leadership of a remote monastery in the Sinai desert for retirement in the bleak and stormy English seaside town of Stormhaven. When the charismatic local vicar is discovered dead – crucified, naked, to a cross on the vestry wall – Abbot Peter is invited to act as a Special Witness investigator.
He is assigned to work alongside Detective Inspector Tamsin Shah – young, pretty, brash, unsentimental and, by a peculiar quirk of fate, a niece that Abbot Peter never knew he had.
A cast of suspects to the murder of Rev. Adam Fontaine is quickly revealed from within the church’s own community – including the formidable flower-arranger, the egotistical bishop, the compassionate curate, the irascible youth worker and the frustrated treasurer. Nine people were at the meeting that immediately preceded the vicar’s shocking death. Could the mystical nine-point Enneagram revered by the father he never knew help Abbot Peter uncover the murderer?
More deaths will follow before he discovers the answer.
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