Corporate Bodies

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fans of Richard Osman – but with added bite!

“Like a little malice in your mysteries? Some cynicism in your cosies? Simon Brett is happy to oblige” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Few crime writers are as enchantingly gifted” THE SUNDAY TIMES

“One of British crime’s most assured craftsmen . . . Perfect entertainment” THE GUARDIAN

“A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans” P.D. JAMES

“Murder most enjoyable” COLIN DEXTER

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A middle-aged actor – and sometimes sleuth – hired for a corporate video
A company, acting suspicious
A dreadful accident . . . or is it murder?
Giving a whole new meaning to the term CORPORATE BODIES!

Charles Paris, the almost perpetually out of work actor, finally has a new job, breaking the dry spell of his unemployment. It's not prime-time television or a major film, but it seems easy enough: he is to play a forklift driver in the Delmoleen company’s corporate video.

The shoot starts off well – until, that is, the forklift is used to commit a murder! The victim is Dayna Richman, a young secretary, who’s found crushed to death by the monstrous machine.

Was it just an unfortunate industrial accident? Charles Paris and the Delmoleen company don’t seem to think so. In fact, Charles finds himself thrust into the spotlight as the prime suspect . . .

Fans of Agatha Christie, The Thursday Murder Club, Anthony Horowitz, Alexander McCall Smith, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will love this hilarious cozy traditional mystery series featuring one of the funniest antiheroes in crime fiction. Written over a fifty-year-period, it perfectly captures life and contemporary attitudes in 1970s London – and beyond!

READERS ADORE CHARLES PARIS:

“Brett's light, clever dialogue makes this Charles's best showing in years” Kirkus Reviews

“[One] of the best light-comedy crime series currently in rotation” Booklist

“This an entertaining golden oldie from one of my favourites. It has Simon Brett's usual mixture of good plotting, humour and believable characters” Bud, Goodreads 5* review

“[A] British cozy at its best” Nathalie, Goodreads 5* review

“Excellent!” Silvio, 5* Goodreads review

THE CHARLES PARIS MYSTERIES, IN ORDER:

1. Cast in Order of Disappearance
2. So Much Blood
3. Star Trap
4. An Amateur Corpse
5. A Comedian Dies
6. The Dead Side of the Mike
7. Situation Tragedy
8. Murder Unprompted
9. Murder in the Title
10. Not Dead, Only Resting
11. Dead Giveaway
12. What Bloody Man is That
13. A Series of Murders
14. Corporate Bodies
15. A Reconstructed Corpse
16. Sicken and So Die
17. Dead Room Farce
18. A Decent Interval
19. The Cinderella Killer
20. A Deadly Habit
15. A Reconstructed Corpse
16. Sicken and So Die
17. Dead Room Farce
18. A Decent Interval
19. The Cinderella Killer
20. A Deadly Habit