Four-star review of The Body on the Beach Fethering Mysteries
Book 1 by Simon Brett
Carole Seddon, a recent divorcee and former Home Office
employee, and her neighbor Jude, with a mysterious past she won’t talk about,
become an unlikely team of amateur sleuths in this, the first in a series of
murder mysteries set on the south coast of England. In this one, they
investigate the disappearance of a body Carole found on the Fethering beach
while she walked her dog. Typical of small English villages filled with more
deaths than inhabitants, we’re introduced to an assortment of both eccentric and
typical characters. Touches of British humor are combined with examples of the
social strata that seem to still exist in Britain. This was a quite enjoyable
solid murder mystery made better by the growing friendship between the two
protagonists.
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