Guilt at the Garage
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
When 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 …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brett takes a shrewd look at the nasty side of village life in his slyly witty 20th Fethering mystery (after 2019's The Killer in the Choir). When garage owner Bill Shefford, a longtime widower, returns home to Fethering, "a village of unimpeachable middle-class propriety, minding its own business in West Sussex on the South Coast of England," from a vacation in Thailand with Malee, his beautiful new bride, the locals are quick to brand Malee a gold digger who's out to cheat Billy, Bill's son, out of his rightful inheritance. The noxious flow of village gossip escalates when a gearbox falls on Bill's head while he's working on a car, killing him. The tone darkens as the series leads Carole Seddon, a straight-laced retired civil servant, and her zaftig neighbor, Jude Nichols, an alternative healer investigate the circumstances surrounding Bill's death. The disparate duo uncover a crime even more sinister than outright murder. Well-developed subplots support the intricate narrative. Brett proves once again to be a master of the amateur sleuth genre.
