Lucy lives with her father Maurice and has two close friends from the Woodyard, Rosa and Christine. In addition, while working at the Woodyard, Simon befriended a woman with Down Syndrome named Lucy who goes to the Woodyard. Matthew’s husband, Jonathan, runs the center, Simon volunteered there, and Christopher Preece, Caroline’s father, is on the board. Her name is Gaby, and she is the artist in residence at the Woodyard, a community center that brings together people with learning disabilities, business people, and members of the the artistic community. Caroline, who works at the church for a charity established by her father, takes him in and offers him a room in her house.Ĭaroline already has one roommate. A woman named Caroline Preece and the curate, Edward Craven, were there at the time. It turns out that the victim is Simon Walden, a man whose guilt from killing a child in a car accident years ago caused him to go to a church in a distressed state. Ross is on his way to the crime scene with Jen, Matthew's sergeant. A dog-walker found the body of a man who was stabbed to death on the beach. He is about to leave when he receives a call from Ross, his constable. He was not invited to the funeral because he is an outcast of the Barum Brethren, a religious group that he grew up in and his parents still belonged to.

Kindle Edition.Ĭleeve's narrative is divided into forty-three chapters, each told from the third-person perspective of either Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, Detective Sergeant Jen Rafferty, Maurice Braddick, or Gaby Henry.Īs the narrative opens, Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is attending his father’s funeral from afar. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Cleeves, Ann.

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