Death in the Dressing Room

by Brian Kenney

One of the great pleasures of reading any of Simon Brett’s (A Messy Murder, Death and the Decorator) four series is that you can just pick a volume and get going. No need to worry about which book comes first. Brett’s a strong enough writer that he knows to provide just a bit of earlier information, but never so much as to overload the reader with backstory. Death in the Dressing Room is in the Fethering series, which means that readers will meet (or be reintroduced to) Carole and Jude. The former is an uptight, former Home Office type now retired, and Jude is a professional “healer” and every bit the former hippie. The two would never have hit it off if they weren’t neighbors in the lovely town of Fethering. In this story, the women are investigating the murder of one of the leading stars, Drake Purslow, whose body was found in the theater. While she’s no friend of actors, it’s nevertheless Carole who becomes a volunteer at the theater, if only to unearth the most salient facts about Drake and the whole crew. Fun, fast, and totally credible.

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