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Jude is at a dinner party in the neighboring town of Fedborough when a scream breaks the mood. She follows her host and his son down to the cellar to find the mummified torso of a woman. Needless to say, this breaks up the not-so-pleasant evening, and Jude returns to Fethering to tell Carole of the discovery at Pelling House. Fedborough is full of strange characters, so new age 50 something Jude and depressed slightly younger Home Office retiree Carole fit right in. The Fethering Series is full of the slightly off center characterizations that Brett is famous for. Jude is sort of a new age person, who dresses in flowing gowns. We don't even know her surname, and this is the third book in the series. Carole is by nature somewhat reclusive, and is becoming more so since her failed love affair with the local publican. But Jude leads Carole on and even helps to bring her out of her depression, while solving the crime after the police have decided that a local man. who committed suicide after the discovery of the body, was the murderer. Simon Brett is a very facile writer with a cruel sense of humor, but for those of us who think that Charles Paris is a real person, and who go on pilgrimages to his once grotty bed-sitter in Hereford Road and his benefits office in Lisson Grove, both the Mrs. Pargeter series and the Fethering series are just time fillers until Charles returns. The cover of the UK edition, ISBN 033390530X
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, August 2002
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