Fete Fatale — Robert Barnard

AN OCCASION FOR MURDER
Father Battersby, the new vicar, was scandalously High Church. Worse still, he was celibate...a condition totally unacceptable to the women of Hexton. Their minds made up, an unwelcoming committee had already formed. The town's sourest spinster, a hat shop proprietor, a colonel's wife, and a prim widow had banded together for a holy war. Veterinarian Marcus Kitterege and his wife, Helen, tried to mediate, but a showdown was fast approaching. And, at the annual church fête, amid the homemade jams and games of chance, the main attraction would be simply...murder.