Death in the Dressing Room, Simon Brett
Death in the Dressing Room, Simon Brett
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Death in the Dressing Room

Author: Simon Brett

Narrator: Simon Brett

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2025

Synopsis

Neighbors Carole and Jude investigate murder most horrid in the theatre in the latest Fethering village mystery from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fans of Richard Osman—but with added bite!Carole Seddon, a very respectable retired woman living in the English seaside village of Fethering, doesn’t care for the theatre. But her neighbor Jude counts the job of actress among her many and varied past careers. So when Jude attends the closing night of a new play based on a classic TV sitcom, Carole is interested—but only because she suspects the leading man, Drake Purslow, is one of her scandalous friend’s ex-lovers.The night turns out to be more dramatic than either Carole or Jude could have ever predicted. After the performance, Jude makes her way to Drake’s dressing room, only to find him dead—in what, to Jude’s experienced sleuthing eye, seem very suspicious circumstances.Did one of the play’s cast—made up almost entirely of the original sitcom’s actors—have a long-held grudge against the show’s star? Or are more recent hatreds to blame? Jude is determined to find out—and Carole, who despite protestations is almost pathologically nosy, is right there to investigate alongside her.Not met Carole and Jude yet? Dive right in, and discover why The Guardian called Simon Brett “one of British crime’s most assured craftsmen.” Fans of Janice Hallett and M.C. Beaton are in for a treat.

About Simon Brett

Simon Brett was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he earned a First Class Honours Degree in English. He has written over seventy books. Many are crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs. Pargeter, and the Feathering series. Simon was also Chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986 to 1987 and of the Society of Authors from 1995 to 1997.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne on December 21, 2024

What a treat to read the 22nd novel in Simon Brett’s great series featuring bohemian healer Jude and her strait-laced neighbor Carole Seddon! With many other mysteries, the series gets tired long before the 22nd book, but Brett makes readers long to be reunited with Jude and Carole. Drake Purslow, a......more

Goodreads review by Shaina on February 24, 2025

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Simon Brett for providing me with a complimentary digital ARC for Death in the Dressing Room coming out April 1, 2025. The honest opinions expressed in this review are my own. Carole Seddon, a very respectable retired woman living in the English seaside village of F......more

Goodreads review by Peter on December 31, 2024

Brett is such a dab hand at this stuff I was a little surprised that the pacing seemed off, but actually its so all the background character work has been put in for a nicely twisty denouement. He is also a dab hand at inventing plausible TV shows, and here a cast, who map just enough on to known ar......more

Goodreads review by Miki on March 29, 2025

When Jude discovers the body of an old actor friend she was due to catch up with, she knows that his death was not an accident. Her and Carole's investigation takes them to the realms of sitcom from the 1980s and the possibility of a connection with a previous death in the cast. Plenty of red herrings......more

Goodreads review by Lorraine on March 06, 2025

This is one of Simon Brett’s popular Fethering mysteries, so named because of the small English town in which his protagonists reside. This is a relatively light mystery, a shortish novel, but containing a twisty mystery and some sharp insights into human nature. I always enjoy the Fethering books, a......more

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