I saw that the edifice was embellished with the most graphic of carvings, gods and mortals intertwined in the sort of positions that your local vicar would probably never have imagined, let alone countenanced plastering all over the front of his church. And yet a vicar would be perfectly happy with gargoyles or stained - glass depictions of the damned burning in hellfire. It made me think.

Abir Mukherjee: A Necessary Evil(Wyndham and Banerjee series Book 2)