The Hanging in the Hotel
by Simon Brett

Discover your favourite new English murder mystery!

Meet Carole and Jude, two chalk-and-cheese neighbours who team up to solve a baffling murder.

Catering a swish dinner at Hopwicke House Hotel sounds like a cinch to Jude. Until she realizes who she’ll be waiting on. The Pillars of Sussex, a group of insufferably smug, back-scratching local businessmen.

Once they’re done carousing, the Pillars shuffle off to bed. Leaving one wannabe member lying in a drunk-and-disorderly heap on the floor.

Jude steers gangly young Nigel Ackford to his room. She tucks him carefully into bed, thinking he’ll have a sore head in the morning.

But Nigel is spared his hangover.

Next morning, Jude finds Nigel’s body hanging from the elegant four-poster.

As far as the Pillars — and the police — are concerned Nigel did this to himself. But Jude knows that can’t be right. Nigel was so in love with the gorgeous Wendy. He had everything to live for.

But if Nigel didn’t die by his own hand, then whose . . . ?

Just like that, Jude and Carole find themselves roped into their knottiest mystery yet!

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Simon Brett

Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He is the author of more than 100 books, including the much-loved Fethering mysteries, the Mrs Pargeter novels and the Charles Paris detective series, as well as the Decluttering mysteries. In 2014, he was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association’s prestigious Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence and contribution to crime writing, and in the 2016 New Year’s Honours he was awarded an OBE ‘for services to literature’.Married with three grown-up children, six grandchildren and a ginger cat called Douglas, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs.

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