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Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a pleasingly self-contained retirement on England's southern coast. Which is precisely why Carole Seddon, who has outlived both her husband and her career at the Home Office, has chosen to reside there.
So the last thing Carole expects to encounter in Fethering is a new neighbour with but one name and an obviously colourful past. 'Jude' was not really Fethering..... but neither was the body Carole found on the beach.
A body, it has to be said, that has disappeared by the time the police arrive. Only Jude is ready to believe what her neighbour says she saw - and from that moment on, the two women are resolved to turn detectives.
'Simon Brett comes up trumps yet again... an excellent thriller.' Irish News
'A new Simon Brett novel is an event for mystery fans.' P. D. James
'Pure pleasure from beginning to end.' Birmingham Post
'I stayed up until three in the morning finishing this delightful, thoroughly English whodunnit.' Daily Mail
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The first of a new series "The Fethering Mysteries", The Body on the Beach takes us to a small south coast retirement community where spite runs high. Uptight divorcee Carole has restricted her life to walking the dog and the odd bit of charitable work--she confuses middle age and retirement with being bored and depressed; when she finds a body on the beach, she calls the police and is irritated when they treat her like a hysterical idiot--the body has gone missing. Her new neighbour, the flashy Jude, a woman with a past and an untidy living room, drags the more thoughtful Carole into regular glasses of wine at the pub and what becomes a complicated investigation; Jude is keen to have a good time at all times, and will not take the polite rebuffs which keep Carole from involvement with life. This is an interesting thriller which reminds us that even Middle England has its underside; it is also an impressive opening to a new series in which Brett skewers the conventionality and repressed emotion of his intelligent heroine while understanding the safety they represent for her. --Roz Kaveney
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'A clever story told in a sprightly style about a pair of feisty heroines whose future adventures I look forward to reading.' -- The Scotsman
'Aficionados of the elegant, well-turned mystery novel will find much cause for delight in the inauguration of this series.' -- Crime Time
'Brett is a highly skilled exponent of the light-hearted crime novel, and this new Fethering series will not disappoint his many fans.' -- Yorkshire Post
'I stayed up until three in the morning finishing this delightful, thoroughly English whodunnit. . . And the good news is that this is only the first of an entire series.' -- Daily Mail
'Simon Brett comes up trumps yet again . . . an excellent thriller but also a well-observed social commentary.' -- Irish News
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0330376969
- ISBN 13 9780330376969
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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