Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years living at the Rectory 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 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. And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together . . . and catch a killer.
