The Riviera Express, TP Fielden
The Riviera Express, TP Fielden
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The Riviera Express

Author: TP Fielden

Narrator: Eve Karpf

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HQ

Published: 02/23/2017


Synopsis

‘A delicious adventure’ – Murder on the Riviera Express Gerald Hennessey – silver screen star and much-loved heart-throb – never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire seaside town on the English Riviera. Murdered on the 4.30 from Paddington, the loss of this great man throws Temple Regis’ community into disarray. Not least Miss Judy Dimont –corkscrew-haired reporter for the local rag, The Riviera Express. Investigating Gerald’s death, she’s soon called to the scene of a second murder, and, setting off on her trusty moped, Herbert, finds Arthur Shrimsley in an apparent suicide on the clifftops above the town beach. Miss Dimont must prevail – for why was a man like Gerald coming to Temple Regis anyway? What is the connection between him and Arthur? And just how will she get any answers whilst under the watchful and mocking eyes of her infamously cantankerous Editor, Rudyard Rhys? ‘This is a fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime. No wonder the author has already been signed up to produce more adventures starring the indefatigable Miss Dimont.’ ‘Unashamedly cosy, with gentle humour and a pleasingly eccentric amateur sleuth, this solid old-fashioned whodunit is the first in what promises to be an entertaining series.’ ‘Highly amusing’ ‘TP Fielden is a fabulous new voice and his dignified, clever heroine is a compelling new character. This delicious adventure is the first of a series and I can’t wait for the next one.’ Wendy Holden, Must have. A golden age mystery.’ ‘Tremendous fun’

About TP Fielden

TP Fielden is the fiction-writing name of the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Christopher Wilson, who has penned biographies of Prince Charles, Camilla, Diana and other members of the British royal family.For twenty years a leading Fleet Street journalist with columns in The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express and Today, he is now a bestselling biographer and (as TP Fielden) novelist.Most recently the creator of the English Riviera Murders, featuring 1950s supersleuth Miss Dimont, he remains an internationally in-demand writer on royal matters, with regular appearances on TV documentaries and reports across the globe.His biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is the acknowledged source material for all other books and TV films on the subject, and his groundbreaking research on the life and family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is also a primary source for biographers and film-makers.His biography A Greater Love: Charles and Camilla was turned into a top-rated TV documentary screened in the USA, UK and twenty-six other countries around the globe, and he has co-produced several major TV documentaries on the British royals. He lectures widely on the subject.He is the co-founder of the Oxford University journalism awards, and for this work he was honoured by St Edmund Hall, the university’s oldest college, with membership of their Senior Common Room.He is married to an American writer and lives on Dartmoor, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aoife on March 06, 2017

I received a copy of this book from Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review. Nothing that exciting ever happens in Temple Regis so when a film star is found dead on a train and then a local man found dead at the bottom of a cliff, local reporter Miss Judy Dimont feels like something is up. Wh......more

Goodreads review by Gerry on September 27, 2023

The 'Riviera Express' is two-pronged; firstly there is the local newspaper which bears that name and then there is the steam train that transports travellers along the Devon Coast. And the two come together when Miss Judy Dimont, the ace reporter for the newspaper, goes to meet the train that is tra......more

Goodreads review by Shandare on December 29, 2019

Not the most engaging book that I read in the cozy mystery genre. It had everything I assumed to be an interesting read, but instead the story ended up being quite distant and the characters were rather dull and boring. The protagonist is constantly referred to as being clever especially when it cam......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on December 13, 2017

Every now and then, I’m sure most of us do, I need a change of pace with my reading and select one of my “holiday” reads. Nearing the end of a very intensive online six week writing course, I spotted the very colourful cover of Murder on the Riviera Express and decided this would do nicely to start......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on February 04, 2017

I would like to thank Netgalley and Harlequin UK for an advance copy of The Riviera Express, a cosy mystery set in 1958 Devon. Miss Dimont, former something in the war, is now chief reporter at The Riviera Express in Temple Regis, Devon. Her life is a whirl of local reporting - court, council, shows......more


Quotes

‘This is a fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime. No wonder the author has already been signed up to produce more adventures starring the indefatigable Miss Dimont.’ – Daily Express ‘Unashamedly cosy, with gentle humour and a pleasingly eccentric amateur sleuth, this solid old-fashioned whodunit is the first in what promises to be an entertaining series.’ – The Guardian ‘Highly amusing’ – Evening Standard ‘TP Fielden is a fabulous new voice and his dignified, clever heroine is a compelling new character. This delicious adventure is the first of a series and I can’t wait for the next one.’ – Wendy Holden, Daily Mail Must have. A golden age mystery.’ – Sunday Express ‘Tremendous fun’ – The Independent