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Informationen zum Autor W.J. Burley lived near Newquay in Cornwall! and was a schoolmaster until he retired to concentrate on his writing. His many Wycliffe novels were extremely popular and were adapted for a highly successful TV series starring Jack Shepherd. W.J. Burley died in 2002. Klappentext A bizarre murder in a quiet Cornish village - but Wycliffe's investigation throws up more questions than answers. "Dead is Jessica Dobbell, a woman who cleaned the church in the town of Moresk and led a life of well-documented promiscuity, including among her conquests her twin sister's husband. Jessica's body is found in the church on Easter morning, posed near the altar with her clothes pulled apart; five keys on the organ are forced down with wedges of paper in a pattern of notes that must be a clue. There is a teenaged boy whom everyone assumes to be gay, a pastor whose sexual orientation is less obvious, a couple who had lived with the dead woman and have clearly fallen from grace, and various other dark souls, virtually all of whom bore a grudge against Jessica and possess a modicum of musical theory. Wycliffe insinuates himself into this small town, carefully probing at raw emotional nerves until he finds the killer...every piece of this unassuming work fits precisely."--Publishers Weekly A bizarre murder in a quiet Cornish village - but Wycliffe's investigation throws up more questions than answers. Zusammenfassung A bizarre murder in a quiet Cornish village - but Wycliffe's investigation throws up more questions than answers. A bizarre murder shakes the Cornish village of Moresk. Arriving at church on Easter morning the vicar discovers the body of a woman sprawled across the chancel steps. Has the church been desecrated by a Satanist ritual? Chief Superintendent Wycliffe sees the crime more as an expression of hatred directed at others in the community! besides the dead woman. His investigation! however! is frustrated at every turn! and when another horrific murder is committed Wycliffe thinks he knows who the killer is. But can he prove it? ...
