Angels fall [Book Blurb Friday]

Last time Luke Darbyshere worked with Francesca Lloyd there had been fireworks, as well as sparks of a more personal kind.

This time bells were rung, but rather than signifying a wedding they were heard at midnight on the eve of the Feast of Stephen, an unmelodious cacophony which, upon investigation, was found to be due to a body having been suspended from the tenor bell in the tower of St. Crispin’s.

That the body was female was unusual, that she was the Vicar’s second, and exceptionally pretty wife curious and that she was six months pregnant – when he had only met her four months ago – suspicious in the extreme.  

That no fewer than four men from the parish – all potential suspects – were found to have simultaneously disappeared made Luke Darbyshere’s investigation more than reasonably time-consuming, as did Francesca’s vociferously expressed belief that he was wilfully ignoring the obvious.

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Week #13’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge which this week uses Kathy Matthews’ stunning and hopefully unseasonal (at least for the UK) photograph.

Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover.   Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book”   The number of ought-to-be but not-yet-written books, sadly, increases weekly.

http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html