{"product_id":"2026200011231-secondhand-the-disposal-of-the-living","title":"The Disposal Of The Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vicar with a dark secret, a parish full of suspects, and a body that refuses to stay forgotten — Robert Barnard's The Disposal of the Living is a wickedly sharp crime novel that turns the quiet rituals of English village life into a theatre of malice and motive. At its centre is a clergyman whose carefully constructed respectability begins to unravel as the sins of his past collide violently with the present, drawing a cast of memorably eccentric characters into a web of deceit and danger.\n\nBarnard, one of Britain's most celebrated crime writers and a lifelong admirer of Agatha Christie, brings to this novel his trademark blend of acerbic wit, psychological precision, and an unerring eye for the hypocrisies lurking beneath polite society's surface. His prose is elegant yet lethally efficient, stripping away the veneer of moral authority to expose the very human capacity for self-preservation at any cost. Readers who believe they know exactly where virtue lies will find themselves deliciously, unsettlingly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161025880283,"sku":"2026200011231-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8773b5e3-83c4-4f40-84e9-cb10102eaa5e.png?v=1787189345","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011231-secondhand-the-disposal-of-the-living","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}