Runagates in Scarceness

"Only a superb historian who grasps the importance of evidence could have written this delightful mystery, and only an accomplished priest and academic insider could have inhabited the mind and instincts of the protagonist of Runagates in Scarceness. Fortunately . . . in the author O.C. Edwards, we have all three. Sharp and crisp in every detail, Edwards's first novel is a delightful tale of intrigue. Read and enjoy!"



--Richard Lischer, James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching, The Divinity School, Duke University



"Priest, southern storyteller, dean of a seminary, scholar, and professor of preaching, O.C. Edwards writes about what he knows. Here is a mystery murder that unfolds in lively detail the play of religion, romance, and the complex motives of the human heart." --Timothy F. Sedgwick, Professor of Ethics, Virginia Theological Seminary"



"I love this little novel! O.C. Edwards has not only written a compelling who-done-it, he has given us a vivid picture of church life in an era when piety, propriety, and intellectual accomplishment were prized. I hope this is not the last we hear of Canon Bothwell, amateur detective."

--Michael Kinnamon, former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches