'The Pulpit is Vacant' is a gentle crime novel with some quite explicit sexual content. It is set on the South side of Glasgow and is the first in a series of novels featuring DCI Charles Davenport and his team, DS Fiona Macdonald who has moved station because of a failed romance, Sergeant Salma Din recently arrived from the West End of Glasgow and constables Penny Price and Frank Selby, the latter sexist, racist and bigotted The new church minister, Robert Gentle is found dead in his study. He is not loved by his family, timid wife, Mary, feisty daughter Ruth and estranged son, Philip. The...

David Gibson is a complex character.He can be a bully at work as depute head of a comprehensive school in Glasgow but at home with his wife, Caroline he is a lamb, doing most of the chores and getting no thanks. Caroline embarks on an affair, secure in the knowledge that David is always going to be there for her...at least, that is, until he is found murdered in his room at school. Charles Davenport and his team start their investigations but before the killer is discovered, another murder takes place in the school. Who has got rid of David? Is it his wife's lover, an angry parent, a...

This book is the fifth in a series featuring Charles Davenport and his police team. Its a kind of gentle murder novel with sexual content, set in and around Glasgow.