A Deadly Vineyard Holiday
by Philip R. Craig | 
The Last Manly Man
by Sparkle Hayter | 
Buried
by C. J. Carmichael | 
Murder under Blue Skies
by Willard Scott | 
A Deceptive Clarity
by Aaron Elkins | 
Death Walks in Eastrepps
by Francis Beeding | 
The Cherry Blossom Corpse
by Robert Barnard | 
Suicide Excepted
by Cyril Hare | 
Dead in the Water
by Julie Smith | 
The "Canary" Murder Case
by S. S. Van Dine | 
Assault and Pepper
by Tamar Myers | 
State Fair
by Earlene Fowler | 
Death and the Dogwalker
by A. J. Orde |
Appleby at Allington
by Michael Innes | 
Dark Star
by Marcia Muller | 
Unholy Dying
by Robert Barnard | 
The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
by Robert Barnard | 
No Place of Safety
by Robert Barnard | 
The Killings on Jubilee Terrace
by Robert Barnard | 
A Hovering of Vultures
by Robert Barnard |
It's bound to be a problem when a vicar's wife loses her faith. In a Robert Barnard novel it can be a source of amusement, dismay, contemplation, and even murder. The hideous neo-Gothic parish church of St. Saviour's may or may not be typical of the Church of England, but clergy wife Rosemary Sheffield definitely does not fit the usual mold. While walking in the park one day, she loses her faith. It just lifts away from her, leaving her feeling free and liberated. Should a woman who loses her faith continue to take an active role in church activities? Rosemary's not about to abdicate her position of power in the Mothers' Union to gossipy Florrie Harridance, not even when Florrie spreads rumors about Rosemary's supposed holiday fling, when she may have been too friendly with a young waiter named Stanko. Rosemary quickly squelches the gossip, but nasty rumors threaten to return when Stanko, a mysterious refugee from the former Yugoslavia, turns up one day at the vicarage, begging for Rosemary's help. In assisting Stanko, Rosemary opens herself and her family to all sorts of unwelcome attentions from inquisitive parishioners. Even her long-suffering husband, Paul, must wonder who Stanko is and what is the nature of Rosemary's involvement with him.
