A dark, delicious tale of a popular village cleric who has no conscienceAfter years spent saving souls, Otis Joy, the rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Foxford, Wiltshire, has found a new calling: ending lives. His young French wife? Anaphylactic shock, what a shame. The bishop? Fell into a quarry. Tragic. It's not Joy's fault, reallynot that he's concerned about repentance or absolution these days. He just doesn't want his other little secretembezzling church funds to finance a fancy yachtto be discovered. But when the husband of the new church secretary, Rachel Jansen, turns up dead, it isn't long before the village starts to gossip and the local constable gets involved. As it turns out, God isn't the only one who's always watching.From the Trade Paperback edition.