Job:- Author/Retired cleric/Broadcaster
Website:- Reverend Richard Coles | Official Website
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Introduction
Reverend Richard
Coles up until 2022 was a Church of England priest. Prior to this he was the instrumentalist
half of the pop band The Communards. His first book in the Canon Clement series
Murder Before Evensong was published in 2022 and was shortlisted for the 2023
British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Book of the Year. His most recent book
is Murder at the Monastery. He is also the co-host of the podcast The
Rabbit Hole Detectives.
Current book (This
can either be the current book that you are reading or writing or both)
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
Favourite book:
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Which two
musicians would you invite to dinner and why?
Josef Haydn and Nana Mouskouri. I think they’d get on and they had/have impeccable manners.
How do you relax?
Watching niche stuff on YouTube
Which book do you
wish you had written and why?
Middlemarch by George Eliot. Life in all its loveliness and awfulness and quite a lot in between.
What would you say
to your younger self if you were just starting out as a writer.
Write every day. Doesn’t matter if it comes easily or stickily. Just write.
How would you
describe your latest published book?
The winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
With A Dance to
the Music of Crime: the artful crime to murder being the theme at St Hilda's
this year, which are you three favourite albums?
The Smiths (The Smiths)
Last Leaf (The Danish String Quartet)
The Ring of the Nibelungen (Wagner)
If you were given
the ability to join a band which would it be and why?
I would have loved to have played in the Burt Bacharach Orchestra. The maestro.
If you were to
re-attend a concert which would it be and why?
Chaka Khan, NY 1987. Best I’ve ever heard, I think.
What are you
looking forward to at St Hilda's?
Gossip and drinking with other writers.
Murder at the Monastery
by The Reverend Richard Coles (Orion Publishing)
Daniel Clement has
suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery
where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't allow Daniel a break, for
there are tensions building there too, as the secret past of novice master
Father Paul is emerging. Tension mounts and a murder ensues. Meanwhile back at
Champton, Daniel is the subject of village gossip, his mother Audrey is up to
something again, there's trouble at the dress shop, up at the big house, and
the puppies are running riot. Can Daniel be reconciled with detective Neil and
solve the mystery?
A Christmas Novella
Murder Under The Mistletoe will be published in October.
Murder Under The
Mistletoe by The Reverend Richard Coles (Orion Publishing) October 2024
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?
Information on how
to buy online tickets can be found here.
#HCFW24
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