…without checking if they should.
Like Richard Osman before him, Richard Coles has put his name on a book (like Osman’s books, the contents of this book do not qualify as writing so we can’t really call him a writer, it wouldn’t be fair on real writers) and the results are awful.
It is cozy-crime of the most cloying, insidious and remedial nature, with the barest possible effort made for it to have a beginning, a middle and an end (which doesn’t come soon enough). Too many (dull) characters, overlong and complex sentences, boring pacing - this is an amateurish work.
It will be a bestseller because it has Richard Coles’ name on it, but great literature it is not.
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I like Canon Daniel Clement, he has potential....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2022
Its worth persisting with this first book featuring Canon Daniel Clement which I also found with Richard Osman's first The Thursday Murder Club book. Though The Reverend Richard Cole's is more like a cross between the Turnham Malpas series by Rebecca Shaw and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. I'm not sure why it is set in the 1980s except that Canon Clement would have the relative luxury of only one parish to support. Today it would be more like five (and so it came to pass). I hadn't realised it was set during that decade as there is no reference to this apart from the mentioning of a couple of television series and sporting events; although it feels very modern in context. I like Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey, quite different in their outlook, and Bernard the local Lord. It took a while to sort and settle the other characters in the fictional village of Champton. The map helped to a certain degree though needs more detail. I like the references to the services, collects, prayers and of the church itself. And Daniel's devotions. The description of the first murder is quite gory. Dogs! And my hardback copy has blood splatters on its cover. The story unfolds and leads to a sad but fitting resolution. All in all its a good start and has real potential as a series. I look forward to reading the second Canon Clement mystery.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2022
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