CHANNILLO
Series Description:
The year is 1894. Yorbridge Cathedral is an unhappy place. Jack Sturmey, one of the cathedral’s lay clerks, is hated by everyone: dean, organist and choirmaster, choristers and choirmen, principal of the adjacent teacher training college. And hated for one reason and one reason alone. He has a little black book with entries on all of them: many and boy; ordained and lay. That’s why he goes by the nickname ‘Squirmey’; everyone squirms in his presence, at the sight of him, or even the very thought of what he might be planning next.
Cathedral and College life continues with Squirmey’s shadow over everything and everybody, until one day, his lifeless body is found in the cloisters, just by the entrance to ‘the Cave’, the room where the choir practices. With so many detractors, who could have killed the errant clerk. Was it Varley Barker, gruff Organist and Master of the Choristers; Bacchus Dyson, Principal of the College of St David and St Maurice; Sims Kilbey, Dean; Roberts Goulburn, Precentor; Prince Charles Victor, royal student at the College; perhaps even the brilliant but wayward Head Chorister, Ivor Handl. Or one or more of two dozen other suspects all of whom had reason to fear Squirmey and his black book?
The list is almost endless. The case is assigned to newly promoted Detective Inspector John Lomas, himself a supernumerary bass singer at Yorbridge Cathedral. Lomas and Detective Sargeant Harry Makepeace, temporarily transferred from Hartleydale CID to help with the case, uncover a web of lies, fraud, sexual intrigue and much more before they finally discover the murderer, all while trying to prevent a most shocking scandal becoming public.
The Cloister Killings is a follow up to David Baker’s The Organ Loft Murders.
Category/Genre(s): Mystery/Thriller, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, HorrorUpdated: Weekly
Status: Upcoming
Series Description:
The year is 1894. Yorbridge Cathedral is an unhappy place. Jack Sturmey, one of the cathedral’s lay clerks, is hated by everyone: dean, organist and choirmaster, choristers and choirmen, principal of the adjacent teacher training college. And hated for one reason and one reason alone. He has a little black book with entries on all of them: many and boy; ordained and lay. That’s why he goes by the nickname ‘Squirmey’; everyone squirms in his presence, at the sight of him, or even the very thought of what he might be planning next.
Cathedral and College life continues with Squirmey’s shadow over everything and everybody, until one day, his lifeless body is found in the cloisters, just by the entrance to ‘the Cave’, the room where the choir practices. With so many detractors, who could have killed the errant clerk. Was it Varley Barker, gruff Organist and Master of the Choristers; Bacchus Dyson, Principal of the College of St David and St Maurice; Sims Kilbey, Dean; Roberts Goulburn, Precentor; Prince Charles Victor, royal student at the College; perhaps even the brilliant but wayward Head Chorister, Ivor Handl. Or one or more of two dozen other suspects all of whom had reason to fear Squirmey and his black book?
The list is almost endless. The case is assigned to newly promoted Detective Inspector John Lomas, himself a supernumerary bass singer at Yorbridge Cathedral. Lomas and Detective Sargeant Harry Makepeace, temporarily transferred from Hartleydale CID to help with the case, uncover a web of lies, fraud, sexual intrigue and much more before they finally discover the murderer, all while trying to prevent a most shocking scandal becoming public.
The Cloister Killings is a follow up to David Baker’s The Organ Loft Murders.
Category/Genre(s): Mystery/Thriller, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, HorrorUpdated: Weekly
Status: Upcoming