Reviews"Brett is brilliant at showing how throwaway comments and casual snubs intensify cruelty to outsiders. This is an especially incisive Fethering adventure, with a shocker of an ending" - Booklist Starred Review "Slyly witty ... Brett proves once again to be a master of the amateur sleuth genre" - Publishers Weekly, The manner of murder is as satisfyingly bizarre as any Golden Age puzzler ... This may just be the best Brett novel yet
Series Volume Number20
Dewey Decimal823.92
Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition
SynopsisWhen Carole Seddon's car is vandalised, it heralds the start of a disturbing series of events in the witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery. Carole Seddon's trusty Renault is one of her most treasured possessions. So when it is vandalised, there's only one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford has been servicing the vehicles of the good citizens of Fethering for many years. But how could something like this happen in Fethering of all places? Then the note is shoved under Carole's kitchen door: Watch out. The car window was just the start. It would appear that she has been deliberately targeted. But by whom . and why? Matters take an even more disturbing turn when a body is discovered at Shefford's Garage, crushed to death by a falling gearbox. It would appear to be a tragic accident. Carole and her neighbour Jude are not so sure. And the more they start to ask questions, the more evidence they uncover of decidedly foul play ., 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 . . .