The Torso in the Town
by Simon Brett

Meet Carole Seddon, an uptight retiree — and Jude, the happy-go-lucky healer next door. Carole only wants a quiet life, while Jude’s determined to age disgracefully.

These chalk-and-cheese neighbours can’t help but rub each other up the wrong way! Until the day they team up to solve a baffling mystery . . .

Welcome to Pelling House, a grand old mansion on the fanciest street in town.

Entrepreneur Grant Roxby is the new owner. He just moved to the seaside town of Fedborough, and is hosting a dinner party to celebrate. Jude’s on the guest list, along with a handful of other local bigwigs.

Sandwiched between a crusty old clergyman and a lecherous town planner, Jude thinks she’s in for a long night. Until . . .

A blood-curdling scream rings out from the cellar. Where Grant’s kids just made a grisly find — a dead body, hidden behind a fake wall!

Now Pelling House is the talk of the town — for all the wrong reasons!

One of the guests has been hiding quite the secret, and it’s up to Carole and Jude to find out who.

Before the killer strikes even closer to home . . .

Genre: Cosy Mystery

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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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