A terminal case - David Williams

'One could hardly have a more pleasing example of this type of detective story' T. J. Binyon, Evening Standard

The parishioners of Bryntaf, a leafy Cardiff suburb, are far from being shocked when the vicar of St Samson's announces he's divorcing his wife. Some are surprised, though, when he adds that he expects to remarry - an attractive young widow - and still keep his job. But his intentions go for nothing when the widow, a hospital consultant, is brutally murdered, her body mutilated with one of her own scalpels. When the circumstances and timing of the crime come out, there is certainly no shortage of suspects: including the vicar's distracted wife, her saturnine student son, the consultant's jealous accountant, and at least one spinster of the parish who everyone agrees would die for the vicar - but would she kill for him?

In this fourth mystery featuring Merlin Parry and Sergeant Gomer Lloyd, David Williams further refines the balance of his engaging and elegantly written Welsh series, which is steadily gaining in popularity.