Reverend Richard Coles, who was the vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire, revealed why he thinks clergymen make good detectives. The author and broadcaster was speaking in front of an audience at GH Live, in partnership with Dyson, on Saturday 11 November.
In an interview with Good Housekeeping's Books Editor, Jo Finney, he said, "Every vicar is a detective, it comes with the job - because, if you think about it, you're constantly trying to figure out why people are doing things, or not doing things.
"My brother is retired now but he was an actual detective and I'm finding that we quite often swapped notes, trying to figure out what was going on."
"As a vicar you're out there. We get everywhere, no one asks us what we're doing, we're around the high and low points of people's lives, and we're part of a community of people."
W&N A Death in the Parish: The sequel to Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement Mystery)
His latest book, A Death in the Parish is the sequel to Murder Before Evensong and picks up a few months on from the Sunday bestseller.
It follows Coles’s ecclesiastical hero, Daniel Clement as he tries to steady his flock with murder returning to Champton.
Asked about how he comes up with the murders in his novels, Reverend Coles said: "I start with the murder. I have this now when, whenever I meet someone from a certain profession, I say to them 'If you were going to kill someone, how would you do it?'."
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