Death on the Downs by Simon Brett

It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn't the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two blue fertiliser bags.


Death on the Downs is the second in Simon Brett's Fethering series which now numbers 13 books, of which I'd read the grand total of none.

Carole Seddon is a 50+ woman, formerly employed at the Home Office, but having taken early retirement lives in the seaside town of Fethering. Her friend Jude lives next door. After Carole's discovery of the bones it doesn't take long for these two amateur sleuths to be come unofficially involved in the investigation. I enjoyed the personality differences between the proper Carole and the more free-spirited Jude but overall not a particularly memorable mystery.

It's a cozy mystery which I seldom read but I was struggling to find a book that would fit a challenge category so was quite happy to let it entertain me on a cold winter's Sunday. 


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