Death On the Downs

About the book

Strait-laced Carole and her laid back neighbour Jude are back in the second installment of Simon Brett's Fethering Series. Carole Seddon wasn't disturbed by the rain or the dilapidated barn during her walk on the West Sussex Downs, but rather by the human skeleton she stumbled upon there...

This marks the beginning of Carole and Jude's second investigation, which leads them to the small hamlet of Weldisham, away from Fethering. The local gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin Lutteridge, a young woman who went missing from the village months ago. Detective Sergeant Baylis remains tight-lipped, leaving Tamsin's mother, a friend of Jude's, convinced that her daughter is still alive. Meanwhile, the unstable Brian Helling is eager to declare the presence of a serial killer on the loose...