Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, James Runcie

Condition:  WELL READ 

Publisher:  Bloomsbury

Publication date: 2013

First published 2012

Format: Paperback 

Pages:  392

The Grantchester Mysteries #1 

From the cover:  

Sidney Chambers, the vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two-year-old clergyman with a difference: he is also a reluctant detective.  Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney stumbles across a series of baffling cases: 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's daughter; 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. . .