A Timely Confession: A Stephen Capel Mystery

As Christmas approaches and vicar Stephen Capel finds his feet in his new parish, an unlikely confession of murder throws him into a complex and dangerous investigation.

A software developer has been killed just before the launch of a make or break new product. While trying to help those left behind, Capel is pulled into the mystery of who really killed Mark Nelson.As Capel attempts to cope with an upheaval in his private life and to help those whose lives are torn apart by a second murder, he must search the snow-covered streets of Bath for answers before another victim dies.

A cosy West Country murder mystery.

Brian Clegg is a prize-winning popular science writer. His most recent books are How Many Moons Does The Earth Have and Ten Billion Tomorrows, with 20 other popular science titles including Inflight Science, Before the Big Bang, and How to Build a Time Machine. His Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has also now written two books in the Stephen Capel murder mystery series - see www.brianclegg.net for more information. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, Brian read Natural Sciences (specializing in experimental physics) at Cambridge University. After graduating, he spent a year at Lancaster University where he gained a second MA in Operational Research. From Lancaster, he joined British Airways, where he formed a new department tasked with developing hi-tech solutions for the airline. Brian has written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, BBC Focus, Physics World, The Observer, Good Housekeeping and Playboy. His books have been translated into many languages, including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Norwegian, and Indonesian. Brian has given sell-out lectures at the Royal Institution, the British Library and the Science Museum and many other venues. He has also contributed to radio and TV programs, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site, blogs at www.brianclegg.blogspot.com, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian lives in Wiltshire with his wife and twin children. In his spare time, he has a passion for Tudor and Elizabethan church music.