Books by Simon Brett
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review 1: Hugely enjoyable froth. A clever, well observed satire of the amateur detective genre. Blotto and Twinks are an aristocratic brother and sister team who apparently often join forces to solve various crimes. While staying at another stately home, a Dowager Duchess is murdered b...
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review 1: This was properly silly, a real send up of 20s detective stories and aristocracy and Bertie Wooster and all of that. And possibly the dimmest character to hit the fictional world - Blotto. Amazing he's made it into a detective duo. It was silly, but it did get a bit tiresome afte...
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review 1: Another light read, with the usual occasional barbed comment aimed at the West Sussex middle classes - this time an amateur dramatic society. A bit less of Carole this time and a bit more of Jude; quite glad that this one didn't contain the what-happened-to-everyone-in-years-to-c...
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review 1: A charmingly English whodunnit - just a bit tame and unrealistic for my liking. I felt the author needed to develop his characters more/make them more realistic in terms of their actions and how the female sleuths went about their business which sometimes defied belief. He certai...
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review 1: These books are gentle and undemanding. They're all quite similar - two amateur sleuths (who get described as old biddies but I don't think they are actually that old), who seem strangely reluctant to share their observations with the police. Lightweight story with some serious i...
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review 1: I'm a big fan of Brett's Charles Paris series (LOVE them), so I keep reading the Feathering books, though I don't find them as entertaining. I do like the way the author never wimps out and makes Carol a more sympathetic character. Even in this book, when she's a doting grandma, ...
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review 1: Nice easy read, not too demanding. I have read some others in this series as they turn up (it doesn't really matter with these if not read in order, I think). There was a surprise twist at the end, and some slightly implausible explanations for motive. He is good at social observ...
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review 1: Light reading, mystery set in West Sussex with two middle-aged female amateur sleuths. While not entirely convinced that people would tell such ladies so much when it really isn't any of their business, this series is enjoyable for its gentle social comment and observation (and i...
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review 1: This is a spoof on a classic mystery where the amateur detectives are of the English aristocracy, every country house party will inevitably end in a murder, and is liberally sprinkled (nay sprayed) with phrases like "broken biscuits","me old ice bun" and where chaps would "lay do...