The Australian Women's Weekly

The Grantchest­er Mysteries: Sidney Chambers And The Dangers of Temptation

- by James Runcie, Bloomsbury.

In this fifth book of the Grantchest­er Mysteries, the 46-year-old is now Archdeacon Chambers, married, with a daughter. Sidney is on the working party to discuss sex before marriage, divorce, homosexual­ity and abortion. The title story best sums up Chambers, as he is hit on by a divorcee trying to save her son from a cult. When its leader is beheaded, the cleric extracts informatio­n from the boy’s father, a London dentist. A crown, three fillings and a root canal later, Sidney and Inspector Keating swill the facts at the pub.

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