Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie is the first of the book series from which the British TV series, Grantchester is adapted. Both major and minor details of characters, relationships, and mysteries change in the adaptation from book to screen. Having watched the series before reading this book, I can say that both book and TV show are equally engrossing. Shadow of Death is not a novel, instead it's a collection of short stories that take place successively over the course of a year that follows Sidney Chambers, the bachelor vicar of the Anglican parish in Grantchester near Cambridge in England; these particular stories are set in 1953 and 1954. In the book Inspector Keating and Chambers are already friends and acquaintances when Chambers is called upon by a mourner who believes that the suicide of their loved one was not a suicide at all. Unfortunately once Chambers begins meddling in solving mysteries and crimes, these matters encroac...
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