James Runcie, Author . Other Press $13.95 (301p) ISBN 978-1-59051-293-7
In 1953, a major flood devastated Britain’s Canvey Island, killing dozens of residents. Runcie (The Discovery of Chocolate
) uses this disaster as the starting point for his beautifully crafted novel, which examines the effects of guilt, love,
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James Runcie, Author HarperCollins $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-018481-0
In a series of vignettes that span four centuries and are linked by their focus on chocolate, immortal protagonist Diego de Godoy presides over the discovery and refinement of the divine confection--but his concomitant reflections on life and love,...
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $16 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-60819-856-6
Runcie (Canvey Island) launches a promising new clerical series with this collection of interlocking short whodunits featuring a latter-day Father Brown, Canon Sidney Chambers. In the first selection, set in 1953, the Anglican minister presides over
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60819-951-8
Runcie’s richly atmospheric second collection of Grantchester mysteries improves on its predecessor, 2012’s Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death. Over six stories, Sidney Chambers, an Anglican minister, wrestles with his impulse to solve crimes...
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $17 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-60819-952-5
Character is the strong suit of the four cases, all set in the early 1960s, that fill Runcie’s third collection featuring Canon Sidney Chambers (after 2013’s Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night). In the title story, the reader learns that...
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $18 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-63286-103-0
Set in the 1960s, British author Runcie’s outstanding fourth collection of clerical mysteries (after 2014’s Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil) smoothly mixes clever puzzles with meditations on spiritual issues. The title story presents a truly
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63286-619-6
Runcie continues to deepen his characterization of Sidney Chambers in the six short stories set in the 1960s and 1970s that comprise the engrossing fifth volume of the Grantchester Mysteries (after 2015’s Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sin).
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63286-794-0
Runcie’s Grantchester Mysteries series, which opened in the 1950s, has reached the ’70s in the superior sixth entry (after 2016’s Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation). Sidney is now an archdeacon, and his daughter, Anna, is an inquisitive...
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63557-058-8
Runcie’s exceptional seventh novel featuring Sidney Chambers (after 2017’s Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love), a prequel, opens with an extended section set during WWII. In 1943, Sidney, and his best friend, Robert Kendall, who are...
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63557-067-0
Runcie, best known for his empathic Grantchester mystery series, displays the same gifts for characterization in this account of Johann Sebastian Bach’s composition of the “St Matthew Passion” in 1727. Stefan Silbermann, a former pupil of Bach’s,...
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James Runcie. Bloomsbury, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-1-63973-152-7
A widower turns grief into a profound appreciation of his wife’s legacy in this poignant elegy. British novelist and playwright Runcie (The Grantchester Mysteries) recounts the 2020 death of his wife, Marilyn Imrie—an audio-theater director for the...
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