Join us in Bridgnorth for an evening with bestselling author, broadcaster and national treasure the Reverend Richard Coles as he talks about life and his new novel A Death on Location, the fourth instalment in his Canon Clement mystery series.
In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we’ve come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location.
As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder interrupts filming on set – and it’s an ingenious one . . .
Can Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo – even when things are so sticky between them?
Murder Before Evensong, the first Canon Clement novel, has been adapted for television with some of the filming taking place on location in and around Bridgnorth. Starring Matthew Lewis as Daniel Clement and Amanda Redman as his widowed mother, this six part mystery is due air on Channel Five later this year.
Richard Coles is without doubt one of the UK’s most distinctive voices. Expect an evening full of anecdotes from a life well lived, gossip, wit and wisdom…
Until his retirement from clerical duties in 2022, the Reverend Richard Coles was a Church of England priest in Finedon, Northamptonshire. In complete contrast, Richard was the instrumentalist half of pop band The Communards, who had 3 UK Top Ten hits in the 1980’s. He now co-presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas Masterchef, Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, he scored a lamentably low mark for a Paso Doble. In 2024, he charmed his way to the final of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
He writes regularly for the Sunday Times, and is the author of half a dozen books, including a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches, and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief. Murder Before Evensong, A Death in the Parish and Murder at the Monastery he first three books in the Canon Clement Mystery series, have all been number 1 Sunday Times bestsellers.
Tickets: £20 (Admits One and includes a signed copy of A Death on Location) or £30 (Admits Two with one signed copy of A Death on Location)