A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? The Second Sleep is a great thriller from Robert Harris. It starts off as an intriguing mystery into the death of a priest and then becomes something else entirely. Robert Harris is the master of this type of story and this book ranks up there with some of his best.
