Simon Brett
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Bones Under the Beach Hut
Reviewed on 12th April 2025
Carole and Jude get to spend some time in a neighbouring town when Carole decides to take on a beach hut to entertain her granddaughter, not realise its history will provide two mysteries for the perfectly mismatched neighbours to solve.
The Shooting in the Shop
Reviewed on 1st June 2024
A quick return to Fethering was really relaxing, and I raced through this mystery in two days - it was just what I was looking for in a book.
The Poisoning in the Pub
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Reviewed on 24th December 2022
Book 10 in Fethering sees us revisit a growing cast of familiar characters, who are out for lunch at the pub when disaster strikes.
Blood at the Bookies
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Reviewed on 19th December 2021
Back to the seaside town of Fethering we go, to find nobody particularly suspicious that there’s been another in a complex series of unrelated murders that the local police can’t solve, and so two armchair detectives must step in.
Death Under the Dryer
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Reviewed on 16th August 2020
I’ve found the previous novels in this series very relaxing to read, and Death Under The Dryer continues this trend. While set in the modern era, it continues the spirit of the classic mystery novel, with a casual attitude and relaxed mildly comedic turn to the characters and their relationships.
The Stabbing in the Stables
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Reviewed on 2nd February 2020
Slowly making my way through this series, I find myself at book 7, in which amateur sleuths Carole and Jude accidentally find themselves discovering the body of a stabbed stable owner, and becoming once again drawn into a murder investigation in the surprisingly deadly Sussex countryside.
The Witness at the Wedding
Reviewed on 23rd January 2019
After what feels like a couple of years I finally found this, the next book in the Fethering series - and dived back into the comfortable lives of Carole and Jude. Carole’s son is getting married - injecting a fun element of soap opera to the plot - but there are murderous goings-on amongst his future in-laws which Carole feels compelled to get to the bottom of.