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<p><b>THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES' CANON CELEMENT MYSTERY SERIES<br></b><br> 'Cosy crime with a cutting edge'<br> <i><b>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</b></i><br> <br> 'Even better than I knew it would be'<br> <b>INDIA KNIGHT, <i>THE SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br> <br> 'Devotees of Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories will feel most at home here'<br> <i><b>GUARDIAN</b></i><br> <br> 'Charming and funny'<br> <b><i>OBSERVER</i>, Thriller of the Month</b><br> <br> 'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs ... et voila!'<br> <b>DAWN FRENCH</b><br> <br> 'The unlikely heir to Barbara Pym'<br> <b><i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i></b><br> <br> 'Whodunnit fans can give praise and rejoice'<br> <b>IAN RANKIN</b><br> <br> 'A cunning whodunnit... A sharp but sympathetic portrayal of everyday life in a small community'<br> <i><b>DAILY EXPRESS</b></i><br> <br> 'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds'<br> <b>JANICE HALLETT</b><br> <br> 'Coles' murderous take on a quintessentially English parish makes for a likeable, cosy crime caper'<br> <i><b>SUNDAY EXPRESS</b></i><br> <br> 'Champton joins St Mary Mead and Midsomer in the great atlas of fictional English villages where the crimes are as dastardly as the residents delightful'<br> <b>DAMIAN BARR</b><br> <br> <br> <b>Canon Daniel Clement</b> is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying <b>Audrey</b> - and his two dachshunds, <b>Cosmo and Hilda</b>.<br> <br> When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.<br> <br> And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to <b>Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton</b> - is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the ne