Books written by Simon Brett

The Witness at the Wedding

Libby Pearson was a large, over-enthusiastic woman in her late forties, and Carole got the feeling she had been a large, overenthusiastic schoolgirl in her late teens. She entertained them in the large family kitchen of her large family ...
Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess: Blotto, Twinks #2

'I'm sure there was another clue in Will Tyler's dying words...' 'All you told me he said was that he used to meet this Davy boddo in a pub called The Three Something.' 'No, there was more.' Her brow cleared. 'He said that the place was ...
The Penultimate Chance Saloon

In retrospect he was appalled by his callow chat-up routines borrowed from the BWOC archive, by the love-making itself, by the smug hypocrisy of his conscience-salving Interflora gifts with their cocky little cards of thanks.
What Bloody Man Is That

The idea of Felicia Chatterton as an unwitting Lady Macbeth to Russ Lavery's callow Macbeth made an ugly kind of sense. From the very start of rehearsal, she had found Warnock Belvedere difficult. He had been extremely rude to her in ...
Mrs Pargeter's Principle

It was just that they all seemed so young, so ... callow (though that was probably not a word that Gary knew). Basically, they all seemed so immature when compared to Mrs Pargeter. Deep down he knew he didn't stand a chance with.
Cast, in Order of Disappearance: A Crime Novel

He rushed to St Mary's Hospital , Paddington , and , after the hours of waiting that are statutory in hospitals , finally persuaded a callow houseman to examine him and pronounce him clear of German measles .
Simon Brett, Four Complete Mysteries: An Amateur Corpse; Star Trap; So Much Blood; Cast, in Order of Disappearance

He rushed to St. Mary's Hospital , Paddington , and , after the hours of waiting that are statutory in hospitals , finally persuaded a callow houseman to examine him and pronounce him clear of German measles .
Blotto, Twinks and the Maharajah's Jewel

'Well, then,' said Twinks in her mother's voice, the voice of a Dowager Duchess who cannot be disobeyed, 'the ship's doctor must examine the old Bible-basher and find that she has developed a tropical disease which requires her to ...
Blood at the Bookies

'Towcester in the Northamptonshire town, whose racecourse is set in the Easton Neston Estate. Towcester being one of those English place names which so charmingly befuddle foreign visitors. In the same way that Leominster and Bicester ...
Corpse on the Court

'Now I don't know much about Agnes Wardock's young man, not even his name, but apparently he was a university chum of one of her brothers. They'd both played the game at Oxford, I believe, I don't know where.
The Body on the Beach

An effete young man stood awkwardly by, feeling he should offer to help, but not knowing how. Jude jumped out as soon as Carole ... “Oh, that'll be interesting,” lied Carole, who'd come up to join them. All local documentaries, she knew ...
Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter: Blotto, Twinks #1

Twinks hadn't provided him with an answer to that question, so he fell back on the line she'd insisted he keep saying. ... 'Why, are you suffering from some wasting disease that will cut short your young life?
Blotto, Twinks and the Great Road Race

Praise for Simon Brett: 'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter 'Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted' Sunday Times 'Simon Brett writes stunning detective stories.
The Witness at the Wedding: A Fethering Mystery

Carole Seddon's son, Stephen, is about to be married.
Murder in the Museum

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. JAMES 'Simon Brett writes stunning detective stories' JILLY COOPER 'King of the witty village mystery' Telegraph Bracketts, an Elizabethan house near the town of Fethering, is about to ...
SINGLED OUT

Believing that her family is somehow cursed with evil, producer Laura Fisher reluctantly starts a family of her own, and when her son is accused of murder twenty years later, Laura digs up a shocking secret from her own past. 20,000 first ...
The Death on the Downs

‘King of the witty village mystery’ Daily Telegraph ‘Simon Brett writes stunning detective stories’ JILLY COOPER ‘A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans’ P. D. JAMES It wasn’t the rain that upset Fethering resident ...
Amateur Corpse

‘Dear Old Shakespeare!’ Charles Paris can hardly wait.
Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh

While she has never felt the need to change her figure, Mrs Pargeter is happy enough to accompany her friend Kim to a health farm.
Cast in Order of Disappearance

Who killed Marcus Steen, the theatrical tycoon with a fortune to leave to his young mistress Jacqui?