The eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in The Grantchester Mysteries series, now a major ITV drama
James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of seven novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012, soon followed bySidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil, Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins and Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation. In October 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers, with the second season airing in March 2016. In May 2016 James Runcie became Commissioning Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4. He lives in London and Edinburgh. www.jamesruncie.com www.grantchestermysteries.com @james_runcie
Those who would like an engaging summer read should pack James
Runcie’s latest tale of clerical detection, Sidney Chambers and the
Dangers of Temptation
*Observer*
The running theme is love and loyalty between friends and within
the family ... Runcie has the gift of the born story-teller with an
easy style that makes it hard to put the book aside
*Daily Mail*
Perfect reading for a sunny English garden
*Kate Saunders, The Times*
Runcie has honed his style of light, escapist, small-town crime
stories to something approaching perfection
*Herald*
Runcie works his magic using simple sentences, archetypal
characters and a sense of suspense that creates an atmosphere of
delicious anticipation
*Independent*
There is no reason at all why this series should not run and run
and why Sidney Chambers should not occupy the same place in the
pantheon as Miss Marple or Poirot
*Catholic Herald*
I’m always searching for perfect deckchair escapism and Runcie’s
‘Grantchester Mysteries’ tick all the boxes … The clerical setting
is perfect – Runcie is the son of a former archbishop, but it is
his talent for old-fashioned storytelling that makes the magic
*Saga*
Follow the adventures of clergyman Sidney Chambers in six absorbing
stories set in 1960s England
*My Weekly*
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