Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death

from delphimo

I have enjoyed the Grantchester Mysteries on PBS, and the actual novel expounds on the series. The first book contains short stories on the different adventures that Canon Sidney Chambers encounters in his quest of serving God. My biggest beef with James Runcie becomes the omission of a table of ...

from foodairbooks

I liked this book a lot. It's set in 1953. No sex, no bad language. Good mysteries, & good natured. It was like Fr Brown; it was like Agatha Christie; but it mostly made me think of Barbara Pym. I'll buy the next mystery in this series without doubt. If my grandmother was still alive, I'd give he...

from Beamis12

I am not a big cozy reader, though there are a few series that I still keep up with, but I can definitely see this series joining them. In this series debut, set in 1953 England, Sidney Chambers is a canon, though he is the first to admit he is not a very good one as he feels he could always to m...

from phyllis2779

The book was enjoyable but I would have enjoyed it more if I had not seen the BBC production first. The series follows the book very closely with a few changes in a some of the stories. I really liked the evocation of the period, the depiction of the characters, and just the mood of the book.

from stevierbrown

What a refreshing change to have a balanced, normal, moral central character who is presented as having a faith which impacts his everyday life but (and here is the clever bit) doesn't turn him into an idiot. Sidney is brilliantly conceived character, with a past and real emotions, rather than ju...