Vengeance at the Vicarage

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth.

March 1939. A quiet Sunday morning turns deadly when the Reverend Villiers is found poisoned, propped up in the church’s lychgate. With a cryptic scripture reference scrawled in chalk beneath the body, the killer has left a shocking message for the small town of Spinton.

Amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings is first on the scene, ready to team up with the ever-charming DI Bodkin. Despite a stern warning from Bodkin’s boss to stay away, Amy channels her inner Hercule Poirot to help solve the most complex case of Bodkin's career. Using her favorite detective's techniques, she narrows a town full of secrets down to just nine suspects.

Can Amy piece together the jigsaw of clues before the killer strikes again?

Vengeance at the Vicarage is the second in the cozy, historical Amy Rowlings Golden Age Mysteries series, which can be read in any order. For fans of Verity Bright, Helena Dixon, and Felicity Penn.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:
Small-town mysteries
Amateur sleuths
Clever whodunnits
Female detectives
British village life
Detective love interests
Agatha Christie-style puzzles
Clean, traditional cozy mysteries

Previously published as Death at the Lychgate