Wycliffe

A wealthy novelist points Wycliffe in the direction of a serial killer with a taste for theatrics.

Wycliffe investigates the murder of a local undertaker who was swapped out for the usual life-size effigy villagers light aflame and hurl into the sea every year as part of an ancient ritual.

Wycliffe must find the connection between a runaway pregnant teenager and the corpse of an old woman locked in her own freezer.

A reverend discovers the body of the famously lustful church steward posed deliberately in front of the altar, but Wycliffe suspects a motive more practical than simple conservative disapproval.

Wycliffe must unravel a fisherman's knot of loose ends when Harry Tremaine, a man whom many might want dead, is blown up on his boat.