Last Rites: A prison Chaplain is faced with more than the confessions of a dying inmate

One might suggest LAST RIGHTS was the swan song of a disgruntled police inspector who not only solved the most bizarre string of serial murders in Carters Boys but he broke every rule in the book in doing so. Despite a conciliatory promotion Hammond was determined that Scotland Yard had not heard the last of him.When Superintendent Jack Hammond took early retirement- imagining a new life in the country would be an idyllic and peaceful one-he was not prepared for reality. He didnt take into account he would be left to the mercy of his wife Marjory and indirectly a bunch of the most eccentric characters you could ever wish upon anyone: Reverend Peter Jay a scheming evangelistic vicar; Janet Donald a pariah of a headmistress obsessed with a gender fixation; Dick Meadows the jolly grocer who discovers he has unsettling psychic powers and Arthur Sandhurst the charismatic real-estate agent. Last Rites is a bizarre crime-thriller preoccupied with past London memories and has all the intriguing mystery of breaking codes and bizarre clues led by an astute die-hard retired policeman forced to work with a bunch of wanna-be amateur crime sleuths. Reverend Peter Jay is the nemesis-interested in solving old crimes and standing in as a prison Chaplain where an inmates death-bed confession leads the group on a hunt high and low to uncover an assassin hidden past and give his victims the dignity of the Last Rites.