Pig in the Pulpit

When Peter Barnes became the house-for-duty, priest in charge of the ancient St Walston’s church, he thought life couldn’t get any better. One of the first ever police officers to be ordained into the Church of England, Peter believed he could easily juggle being a part-time copper, and parish priest. All that he held dear would be thrown into incredible turmoil. The mysterious disappearance in 1966 of a former priest would cast a ghostly shadow over his life. The worlds of police officer and priest soon collide and those long dead, reach out from the grave. Hauntings, funerals and a moribund congregation, clash with burglaries, thefts and murder on his rural police beat. Superiors in the police suspicious of his faith and a congregation hiding a long-held secret, bring challenges at every turn. Pig in the Pulpit, is a true to life tale set in the mid 1990’s. It is a crime story with a difference. GP Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author whose books have been translated into over 50 languages and adapted as films. In the mid-nineties, he was a serving police officer on the North Yorkshire Moors, when he was ordained as a priest. For some time, he did both jobs until a serious assault put an end to his police career. Following this, he went on the serve as a priest in Whitby and Ravenscar on the Yorkshire Coast. Pig in the Pulpit brings together stories from both sides of his life as a priest and police officer. “Chesterton’s Father Brown meets Conan Doyle’s Holmes.”