Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth.
March 1939. A quiet Sunday morning turns deadly when the Reverend Villiers is found poisoned, propped up in the church’s lychgate. With a cryptic scripture reference scrawled in chalk beneath the body, the killer has left a shocking message for the small town of Spinton.
Amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings is first on the scene, ready to team up with the ever-charming DI Bodkin. Despite a stern warning from Bodkin’s boss to stay away, Amy channels her inner Hercule Poirot to help solve the most complex case of Bodkin’s career. Using her favorite detective’s techniques, she narrows a town full of secrets down to just nine suspects.
Can Amy piece together the jigsaw of clues before the killer strikes again?
Vengeance at the Vicarage is the second in the cozy, historical Amy Rowlings Golden Age Mysteries series, which can be read in any order. For fans of Verity Bright, Helena Dixon, and Felicity Penn.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
Small-town mysteries
Amateur sleuths
Clever whodunnits
Female detectives
British village life
Detective love interests
Agatha Christie-style puzzles
Clean, traditional cozy mysteries
Previously published as Death at the Lychgate
Former children’s writer T. A. Belshaw is a British author best known for the Amy Rowlings Golden Age Mystery series, a collection of character-driven cosy crime novels set in 1930s Kent. Blending gentle humour, classic whodunit plotting and rich period detail, his books follow the adventures of Amy Rowlings – a sharp-witted, film-loving amateur sleuth with a knack for uncovering secrets in the most unexpected places.
A lifelong fan of Golden Age detective fiction, Trevor draws inspiration from the works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and other classic mystery writers, while bringing his own warmth and modern-storytelling style to the genre. His stories are filled with village intrigue, colourful characters and the charm of pre-war Britain, offering readers a nostalgic escape into a world of clues, gossip and slow-burn romance.
When he isn’t writing, Belshaw enjoys researching 1930s life, especially about his hometown of Ilkeston in Derbyshire, where he lives with his chatty rescue cat, Mia. Trevor is also the author of the five-book, dual-timeline, family-saga series Unspoken, and the four-book, short-format, politically incorrect comedy series Tracy’s Hot Mail.
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