In the seaside hamlet of Fethering (located next to the
town of Tarring),
Carole Seddon maintains a quiet and sensible life. She
doesn't have the time
or the tolerance to deal with her new bohemian neighbor,
Jude, whose
outgoing personality contrasts with that of the prim and
proper Carole. But
her new neighbor doesn't seem so bad when Carole discovers
another addition
to the neighborhood-a dead body on the beach bearing two
wounds on its neck.
Then unable to find the body, the police dismiss Carole's
story. But when a
stranger warns her to keep quiet or else, Carole does the
unthinkable and
confides in Jude-who suggests that if the police cannot be
bothered to catch
a killer, then they should do it themselves.
"The 'odd couple' is a staple of the classic whodunit, and
Simon Brett gives
it a sweet twist." --New York Times
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