Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly divided and 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 ... First in a new series and an Sunday Times bestseller.