Simon Brett

When Jude joins the Fethering community choir, she discovers that at least one of her fellow choristers is hiding a deadly secret.

When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatics Society's production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, little does she realize she'll end up in a starring role. It's an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that's played for real when one of the leading actors is found hanging from the especially-constructed stage gallows during rehearsals. A tragic accident - or something...

Jude's decision to redecorate her cottage leads to a meeting with a local decorator and a surprising discovery behind a wall panel in a Victorian building: a woman's handbag! The discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag's owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier.

Carole Seddon treasures her trusty Renault, and when it is vandalised, there's only one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford. But then a note is shoved under Carole's kitchen door: Watch out. The car window was just the start. And matters take an even more disturbing turn when a body is discovered at Shefford's Garage.

Jude's life has been turned upside-down because there's a new man in it. His name is Piers Targett and he's keen to get her involved in his hobby - or obsession - of real tennis. But Jude's involvement in the game takes an unexpected turn when one of Piers' friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances.

Carole is delighted to take ownership of a beach hut in the affluent seaside resort of Smaltings - until, that is, human remains are found under the floorboards. Who do the bones belong to - and who put them there? Carole and her best friend Jude are determined to find out.

Bracketts, an Elizabethan house near the town of Fethering, is about to be turned into a museum, but the transition is proving nightmarish. Carole regrets her decision to be on the museum's Board when she witnesses bitter antagonism and rivalry amongst the other members. Then a human skeleton is found in the museum's kitchen garden and before too long, there is a second body, not yet cold. These murders in the museum become a case that tests the sleuthing...

When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables - to meet her unusually horse-shaped new client and his owner - she does not expect to stumble across a body. Why has Walter Fleet, co-owner of the stables been stabbed? Jude and her sleuthing neighbour Carole are determined to find out.

Soon after Jude drags her reluctant friend Carole to local store Gallimaufry to do some Christmas shopping, the shop is burned down . and a body is discovered in the ashes. Natural causes? Not when a gun is involved. Someone in Fethering has a secret - and they'll kill to keep it.

When an author event at the local library ends in murder, Jude finds herself a suspect in the waspishly witty new Fethering mystery. Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. Although they haven't met for twenty years, Jude is not surprised to find that St Clair hasn't changed, with his towering ego and somewhat shaky relationship with the truth. What Jude hadn't...