A Death on Location

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES

In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we’ve come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder interrupts filming on set – and it’s an ingenious one . . . Can Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo – even when things are so sticky between them?

Murder Under The Mistletoe

A CANON CLEMENT CHRISTMAS NOVELLA

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry. At the festive feast, peace and goodwill prevail. Until two meet under the mistletoe. One of them falls down dead. And Daniel suspects murder has returned to Champton… Can Daniel and Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo solve the crime and catch the Christmas killer?

The Rabbit Hole Book

99 ADVENTURES INTO THE HISTORY OF STUFF

Written to accompany the unforgettable hit podcast, The Rabbit Hole Book follows Richard Coles, Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer as they investigate and elucidate weird and wonderful curiosities from history, telling stories that are as often dumbfounding as they are gripping, as unexpected as they are hilarious or deeply moving.

Murder At The Monastery

THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SERIES

Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. However, it’s not long before a death occurs and Daniel thinks it might be murder. As dark secrets unfold, can he solve the mystery at the monastery without the help of Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo?

A Death in the Parish

THE SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG

It’s been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel’s problems. 

Murder Before Evensong

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the 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.

The Madness of Grief

A Memoir of Love and Loss

Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles’s life and work. But when his partner the Reverend David Coles died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise.

Bringing in the Sheaves

Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest

After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to God and Christianity. So what is life like for the parson in Britain today?

Fathomless Riches

Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

The Reverend Richard Coles’s warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs in the Communards to one devoted to God and Christianity.

Lives of the ​Improbable Saints

From St Fillan of Munster, patron saint of the mentally ill, who read by the light of his miraculously glowing arm, to Santa Lucia, who tore out her eyes to dismiss the lascivious attentions of her would-be husband, here are nearly 200 classic stories of the saints of Christian legend.