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Neighbours Carole and Jude investigate murder most horrid in the theatre in the latest Fethering village mystery from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fans of Richard Osman – but with added bite!
Synopsis:
Carole Seddon, a very respectable retired woman living in the English seaside village of Fethering, doesn’t care for the theatre. But her neighbour Jude counts the job of actress among her many and varied past careers. So when Jude attends the closing night of a new play based on a classic TV sitcom, Carole is interested – but only because she suspects the leading man, Drake Purslow, is one of her scandalous friend’s ex-lovers.
The night turns out to be more dramatic than either Carole or Jude could have ever predicted. After the performance, Jude makes her way to Drake’s dressing room, only to find him dead – in what, to Jude’s experienced sleuthing eye, seem very suspicious circumstances.
Did one of the play’s cast – made up almost entirely of the original sitcom’s actors – have a long-held grudge against the show’s star? Or are more recent hatreds to blame? Jude is determined to find out – and Carole, who despite protestations is almost pathologically nosy, is right there to investigate alongside her.
Review:
Carole and Jude are an off set of friends. Really more like neighbors than friends, they both enjoy figuring out puzzles and mysteries, so when Jude finds herself in what appears to be a murder plot, Carole decides to step in to help. I have to admit I spent half the book trying to figure out why these two even spoke to each other, rather than being non speaking neighbors. They just didn't gel as a crime fighting duo to me. By the end of the book you could see each of their strengths, and how they each contributed to getting all the clues sorted out and found for the current murder. It's an ok book, and for me it was a solid three, just because I just wasn't buying the main characters, or the stereotypical actors from the sitcom.
About the Author:
Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours for services to Literature and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work.
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