The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over by David Carter

Author:David Carter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: David Carter, British crime fiction, crime novels, police fiction, British detectives, crime stories, murder mysteries, murder mystery, crime fiction, English crime fiction, Walter Darriteau, whodunnits
Publisher: TrackerDog Media
Published: 2017-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

When the vicar of Saint Jude’s, the local parish church, had first heard Armitage sing at the age of eleven, he was transfixed. It was a case of love at first sound. The vicar fell head over heels. There was nothing he would not do for Armitage, so long as Armitage felt the same way.

Armitage did not.

Not that the Reverend Christian de Wyk would be put off by that, and nor did he block or hinder Armitage’s singing. He didn’t, and he couldn’t, because he adored it so, the magical treble voice that soared through Saint Jude’s church, filling the place with joy, and despite all the rebuffs, he would retain Armitage in the choir because, he, Christian, was fiercely ambitious. The Saint Jude’s choir had been widely talked about and admired once before, but that was all of ten years before, long before Christian de Wyk had taken up his post, and long before Armitage had arrived.

Christian intended to return it to how it once was, and backed by the Bishop of Chester, who was a personal friend of his; he was determined to achieve it.

Armitage remained on the front row of the choir.

He didn’t know exactly what it was the vicar wanted; he simply knew that he didn’t. It came from his deepest instincts, that this God fearing man that the parishioners all so adored, was somehow dangerous. Army shared his thoughts with Dennis who couldn’t sing for coalscuttles, Army told him all about it. Of his doubts and fears, and the creeping feeling of cold discomfort that came over him whenever the vicar called him to his private rooms, and how he couldn’t wait to get away, and the numbness he felt when Christian would stand close behind him at choir practice, his hands alive on Armitage’s slight shoulders, as Christian’s raucous baritone echoed into Army’s ears, through the hearty never-ending renditions of All People That On Earth Who Dwell and Onward Christian Soldiers, a particular favourite of the vicar’s, for obvious reasons.

Dennis explained in graphic detail exactly what it was the vicar was after, and he would never forget the look of horror and disbelief on his friend’s young face, as the penny finally dropped.

‘You can’t be serious!’

Dennis nodded his head, unable to keep the likeable smirk from his rodential face.

Armitage had previously gone out of his way to avoid being alone with the vicar. After that enlightenment he refused to attend the vicar’s private rooms under any circumstances, risking any punishment or banishment in the process.

A year later Christian de Wyk disappeared.

Amongst the adults, wicked rumours circulated, not that any of those ever filtered through the thick walls of Saint Edmonds. Armitage was simply glad that Christian de Wyk was there no more, and so were all the choirboys, especially the prettier ones.

He was replaced by the Reverend Blair McGowan, who as his name suggested, was very Scottish and mighty proud of it. He was happily married with four mini McGowans, three boys, all of

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