The cleric is drawn into a murky world of passion and murder after the suspicious death of a solicitor. Read by Alex Jennings.

James Runcie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of four plays and eleven novels, including The Grantchester Mysteries, currently filming its sixth series for ITV and PBS.

The plot is loosely based on The Grantchester Mysteries, a number of short stories by author James Runcie. In a summary of the first episode for season nine, ITV said: "Carson's Circus has rolled ...