The Wrong Christ
A stranger appeared on the green.
He would not give his name.
The village gave him one anyway.
By morning, something had gone wrong inside the church.
By lunchtime, Heaven had sent a Verification Team.
By evening, Elderby St Michael had decided that nobody had seen quite the same thing.
The officials arrive with laminated authority cards, approved expressions of concern and a kiosk that activates itself before anyone admits requesting it.
Nell Harrow is told that the matter is being handled.
This is rarely reassuring.
Elderby St Michael is not an ordinary Yorkshire village. Heaven has an interest in it. Hell follows the correct channels. Certain residents remember other names, older duties and agreements they are forbidden to discuss.
The stranger may be gone.
The question of who he was is not.
The Wrong Christ is a darkly comic supernatural mystery and the first novel in the Elderby St Michael series, where old powers live quiet lives, ancient secrets become agenda items and divine intervention is subject to local procedure.
