Review: Murder at St Anne's

Murder at St Anne's by J.R. Ellis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Oldroyd and Carter find themselves trying to find the murderer of a well-like female Anglican priest soon to be consecrated a bishop. One of the heaviest snowstorms in recent years has them bogged down in more ways than one as they seek to prove a living being rather than a ghost is the killer. Before they are able to track him or her down another parishioners is killed and a third is badly beaten. There are suspects aplenty and even many with viable motives and weak alibis but none who really fit the case.

This is the second in the series which focuses on misogynistic behavior. It adds the narrow-mindedness of the homophobe as well. While these are certainly despicable attitudes in society and have been proven to be motives in real crimes, it is hoped that future books will not continue in this pattern. It is causing them to become preachy rather than who-dunnits meant to puzzle the reader and challenge them to solve the case before the fictional detectives.

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