How to Stay Topp

Humor & Entertainment

Simon, Brett

Humor

Arrow Bks.

Blood at the Bookies: The Fethering Mysteries

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Macmillan

Carole Seddon hates Christmas - it all seems rather a waste of time. So when her best friend, Jude, drags her along to go shopping at a local store called Gallimaufry, she can feel her inner-Scrooge knocking. Then Gallimaufry is burnt down and a body is discovered. It seems like a tragic accident, but it's not natural causes when a gun is involved. With a host of suspicious characters - the infamous womanizer Ricky Le Bonnier; Piers Duncton, an unfunny comedy writer; or Anna Carter, the lonely dog walker - the lady detectives know they have their work cut out for them. It seems that someone in Fethering has a deep, dark, deadly secret - and is prepared to kill to keep it.

The Shooting in the Shop

The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found beneath the floorboards of one of its beach huts, the community is awash with suspicion and fear.
Amateur sleuths Carole Seddon and best friend Jude are drawn into the mystery, and their suspicion quickly falls on attractive Philly Rose, a young Londoner newly arrived in the area, whose boyfriend has recently vanished in mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile, Kelvin Southwest, self-appointed “ladies’ man” and caretaker of Smalting’s beach huts, seems to be hiding a dark secret beneath his smooth exterior, while Reginald Flowers, pompous President of the Smalting Beach Hut Association, becomes increasingly defensive about his own history.
When the bones under the beach hut are identified, the ghosts of the past are painfully reawakened, and long-hidden secrets begin to surface. Bones Under the Beach Hut is an ingenious mystery from one of England’s favourite crime writers, exquisitely plotted, teeming with wonderful characters and packed with unexpected twists.

Bones Under the Beach Hut (Fethering Mysteries)

Hired for a small part in a London musical, actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris investigates a series of suspicious accidents that have plagued the production

Star Trap (Keyhole Crime)

Keyhole Crime

Cast, in Order of Disappearance

Graham Marshall's ambition has made him a professional success, and he has the usual domestic problems to prove it. When he is passed over for promotion by an ambitious colleague he is shocked, but not half as shocked as when he is implicated in a murder, but is it by accident or design?

A Shock to the System

Pan Books

When Melita Pargeter arrives at the Devereux, a respectable seaside retirement hotel, she finds that she's the object of some strange glances and becomes involved in murder. Another in the Mrs. Pargeter mysteries.

A Nice Class of Corpse (A Mrs Pargeter Mystery)

Pan Books Limited

Murder is the outcome when a middle-aged virgin agrees to risk a secret weekend of love at White Jasmine Cottage

Dead Romantic

Pan Books, Ltd.

Carole had never had such a bad hair day! The last thing she expected when she went for a trim at 'Connie's Clip Joint' was to find the body of Kyra, Connie's assistant, in the back room, strangled. Immediately involving her friend and neighbour Jude, Carole becomes determined to investigate the death. Meanwhile Kyra's boyfriend Nathan Locke has vanished. His family, an eccentric, controlling bunch don't seem overly concerned. Instead they are bizarrely obsessed with a family board game which seems to provide a host of clues as to Nathan's whereabouts. Can Carole and Jude unravel the clues and discover the truth before someone is falsely accused, or before the killer makes a second deadly move? And how many haircuts can a middle-aged sleuth have before people become suspicious?

Death Under the Dryer: The Fethering Mysteries

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Pan/Macmillan

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