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Carole and Jude's Turkish holiday takes a murderous turn in the new Fethering mystery
Carole Seddon has never enjoyed holidays much. Nevertheless, she has allowed herself to be persuaded by her friend Jude to accept a fortnight's free accommodation at a luxurious Turkish villa owned by Jude's property developer friend Barney Willingdon.But from the outset the holiday is marred by a series of menacing incidents: threatening messages daubed on the villa walls; and their host being accosted by a knife-wielding man at a local restaurant. As Carole and Jude launch into what they do best - investigating - it becomes clear that Barney Willingdon has made plenty of enemies, with his ruthless business deals and complicated love life. Matters come to a head when Carole's sightseeing trip to nearby Pinara is curtailed by the discovery of a body in one of the ancient Lycian tombs. And what really did happen to Barney's first wife, Zoe?
Author Notes
Simon Brett was born in Worcester Park, Surrey on October 28, 1945. He attended Dulwich College and then Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied English. Between 1967 and 1977, he was a producer with BBC Radio. He also spent a couple of years working for Thames Television.
In 1975, he published his first 'Charles Paris' novel. By 1979, Brett had become a full-time writer. He has written and edited children's books, humorous novels and several anthologies. In 1986, he introduced another sleuth: Mrs Pargeter.
As well as the Charles Paris and Mrs. Pargeter detective series, he is also the author of the radio and television series After Henry, the radio series No Commitments and the bestselling How to be a Little Sod . His novel A Shock to the System was filmed starring Michael Caine.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Brett's lighthearted, fast-moving 16th Fethering whodunit (after 2014's The Strangling on the Stage) takes Carole Seddon and her free-spirited friend, Jude Nichol, to Turkey, where an old flame of Jude's, property developer Barney Willingdon, has offered Jude free use of a villa called Morning Glory. Carole, a stick-in-the-mud prone to falling into a "state of perpetual shudder" in unfamiliar situations, reluctantly agrees to go along. On their arrival at Morning Glory, they're greeted by blood-red graffiti stating that they aren't welcome and should remember what happened to Barney's first wife, who died under ambiguous circumstances. Shortly after this warning, a modern body turns up in an ancient tomb. Carole and Jude subsequently discover that Barney has made lots of enemies between his shady business deals and erratic romantic life. The comic interactions between the chalk-and-cheese pair of amateur sleuths more than compensate for a less-than-compelling mystery. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Vacationing in Turkey, amateur sleuths Carole Seddon and Jude Nichol bring their unique combination of lightweight Fethering conflicts and murder most foul with them.Developer Barney Willingdon, one of Jude's many ex-loversnot that she'd ever tell Caroleoffers her and a friend the use of Morning Glory, his villa in Kayaky, gratis any time before July. From the get-go, the two friends react very differently to this gift horse. Jude's eager to seize the day; Carole sits on the fence even as she scopes out websites for cheap airfares and pores over guidebooks and phrasebooks. Even before they leave England, they pick up hints that there may be a dark side to Barney's offer. His first wife, they learn, died in a suspicious accident; his relations with his second wife, Henry, are obviously strained; and he makes it clear that he's eager to find succor in Jude's arms once more. On arrival, the two are met by Barney's old friend, tour guide Nita Davies, who helps them settle in, gives them information about the village, tells them about her husband, Erkan, who's a scuba instructor, and then gets herself murdered. But when Carole, who discovers Nita's strangled corpse resting atop a tomb she's gone to visit, returns with Jude to show her what she's found, the body has vanished, and Barney, when the women ask about Nita, assures them she's gone back to England to visit the sick mother they learn died when she was 12. The sitcom humor is anodyne but gently effective. There are so few suspects that you'll spot the killer early on, unless of course you're Jude, preoccupied with the men staring at her cleavage, or Carole, checking to make sure she's remembered to take along her Imodium. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
This latest installment in the Fethering series could show new readers why Brett, who has written more than 90 novels in all and won numerous awards, has had such a long and successful run. The Fethering series stars two women who live in the seaside village of Fethering in England. The two are unlikely but effective sleuths and even more unlikely friends: Carole Seddon is retired from the Home Office and fairly inhibited and neurotic, while Jude (no last name) works as a healer and is very loosey-goosey in her approach to just about everything. Now, in this sixth installment, Carole and Jude leave Carole's comfort zone at the offer of a free stay in a luxurious villa in Turkey. Once they get to the villa, they try to untwitch but are interrupted by threatening graffiti, advances from the property developer who offered them the villa, and, finally, by Carole's discovery of a recently dead body on the site of the region's ancient cliffside tombs. A nicely creepy mystery made even creepier by the setting, laced with the comedy of the two mismatched friends and Brett's acerbic wit.--Fletcher, Connie Copyright 2015 Booklist
