The Reaper Author:Peter Lovesey Gleefully demonic, offsetting church homilies with garden poisons, piety with avarice, and a proper tea with a libido-unleashing tumbler of Scotch. Kirkus Reviews Otis Joy is the popular and handsome young rector of St. Bartholomews Church in Foxford, Wiltshire, England. Soon after he receives a pastoral visit from the... more » bishop, the bishops body is found lying at the bottom of a quarry. In the bishops car are a suicide note, a copy of a racy mens magazine and a Bible with an underlined text reading: hath devoured thy living with harlots. His last telephone call, the police discover, was to a Madame Swish! Did the bishop take his own life? His death is strangely opportune. The bishop had accused Joy of embezzling funds. . . .« less