THE HANGING IN THE HOTEL ~ FETHERING #5 ~ by Simon Brett

If you haven’t discovered Simon Brett yet, and you are British or an Anglophile, you really should. For not only does Brett write compelling cozies, but his stories are hilarious send-ups of Britishness. In this volume, The Hanging in the Hotel (Number 5 of the Fethering Mysteries), Jude is forced to dress up as an […]
Murder in the Museum ~ Fethering #4 by Simon Brett

This volume is Number Four of Simon Brett’s alliterative murder mysteries set in the prosperous and benign-seeming county of West Sussex. Here, he takes us into the world of trustees ~ amateur volunteers ~ who are charged with running an estate, which in this novel consists of a country house and its grounds. Add to […]
The Torso in the Town ~ Fethering #3 by Simon Brett

In Volume 3 of the Fethering Mystery series, our two sleuths Carole Seddon (proper and rather puritanical) and her next-door neighbor Jude (not-so-proper and free-flowing) are at a dinner party in the nearby town with some incredibly snobbish people (this is set in the early 2000s) when they discover the mummified torso of a woman. […]
The Body on the Beach ~ Fethering #1 by Simon Brett

When a British writer creates a murder mystery series with alliterative titles, it is clearly meant to be funny. And so, when I picked up THE BODY ON THE BEACH I believed it would be an entertaining…beach read. However, that is not quite true, for it turned out to be much more than that. It […]