Simon Brett: 77 books

A quick trip to the capital goes horribly wrong when Blotto and Twinks get accidentally involved in London's criminal underworld . . . It starts innocently enough at the intimate review 'absolutely everyone is talking about', Light and Frothy, where its glamorous star, Frou Frou Gavotte, has...

'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter Ex-Princess Etheline, daughter of the exiled king of Mitteleuropia, has been kidnapped during a visit to Tawcester Towers, ancestral seat of the Dukes of Tawcester, and ducal family honour demands that she should be rescued. The Dowager Duchess entrusts...

'Brilliant! Will make a perfect Xmas stocking filler' Bronya Ralley 'Delightful. This dip-in-anywhere book put a smile on my face from the first page . . . for everyone who likes a good chuckle' Ruth Milligan As we all know, the oxymoron is one of the great beauties of the English language....

TV producer Laura Fisher sets out to have a baby before her 30th birthday. But on the day of her son's birth, she discovers something about her child's father that shocks her to the core. Twenty years later, Laura's past begins to close in on her and she is forced to face up to a legacy of murder. Simon Brett is the winner of The CWA Diamond Dagger 2014.

Ranging from stark psychological suspense to frothy frolic, this stunning collection of twelve short stories demonstrates Simon Brett's astonishing versatility. In TICKLED TO DEATH, a lover of practical jokes is smothered to death in a custard pie. DOUBLE GLAZING reveals the patient and perverse logic...

The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in Simon Brett's witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery - Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new mant, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby - or obsession - of Real Tennis. But when one of Piers' friends...

A Christmas production of Cinderella is marred by a series of killings in the waspishly funny new Charles Paris mystery Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne’s Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles Paris soon discovers that his main role is to gently introduce the show's...

Madeleine Severn is a tutor at the Garrettway School of Languages, she has a young outlook on life and is proud of her looks. Eighteen-year-old student Paul Grigson idolises Madeleine and during a date of his own he sees Madeleine with the married Bernard Hopkins. When Bernard arranges to meet Madeleine...

In this collection of ten short stories, each with a surprising twist, Simon Brett covers all seven of the deadly sins, with supremely entertaining results. In THE MAN WHO GOT THE DIRT, two Angry Young Men have become Angry Old Men - and one of them is angry enough to kill. In POLITICAL CORRECTIONS,...

Soul searching was an unfamiliar exercise to Bill Stratton, and he found it intriguing as well as painful. He hadn't had much occasion for it in his life, given that he was fairly shallow, but then, on the verge of his sixtieth birthday, his wife told him she was leaving him for another man. He'd...

Charles Paris sitzt im Publikum, als ein junger Kollege auf offener Bühne stirbt – durch einen elektrischen Schlag beim Berühren des Mikrophons. Eine technische Panne?Nach dem Muster des klassischen Detektivromans spinnt Simon Brett die Fäden einer spannenden Story über Show-Stars, Talentsucher,...

Am Premierenabend im berühmten Londoner West End wird der Star einer kleinen Provinztruppe auf offener Bühne erschossen. Für die Polizei sind die Indizien eindeutig. Nicht jedoch für Charles Paris, den Schauspieler-Detektiv des englischen Autors Simon Brett. Ein Kriminalroman, der hinter die Kulissen...

Graham Marshall, Angestellter einer britischen Mineralölgesellschaft, Anfang Vierzig, hat alles erreicht, wovon viele träumen: beruflichen Erfolg, eine hübsche Frau, zwei Kinder, ein großes Haus. Da trifft ihn völlig unvorbereitet die erste Niederlage seines Lebens ...Mit großer Raffinesse erzählt...

Lauter bitterböse MordgeschichtenUnverhofft werden hier Täter zu Opfern und Opfer zu Tätern, laufen sorgfältig ausgetüftelte Pläne schief und überschreiten ganz normale Leute die Grenzen zwischen Normalität, Wahnsinn und Mord. Der englische Autor Simon Brett ist bekannt geworden mit seinen...