Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil by James RuncieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Another delightful journey through the pastoral world of Canon Sidney Chambers and his good friend DI Geordie Keating in the early 1960s. James Runcie's sense of time and place is very accurate, which makes these four longer stories so enjoyable.
Sidney is settling into married life with his German bride Hildegard but things rarely stay quiet for long for our clerical detective in Grantchester. He soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an 'accidental' drowning on a film shoot may not have been so accidental after all; and discovers the reason behind the theft of a baby from a hospital in the run up to Christmas, 1963.
Whilst reading these four stories I cannot help but visualise James Norton and Robson Greene in the two major rôles in "The Grantchester Mysteries" aired on ITV. The next series will commence soon. I wonder how close the scripts will follow these stories...
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