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Author:
Brett, Simon
Narrator:
Cosham, Ralph
Series:
Fethering Mystery
Published:
Blackstone Publishing 2009
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Recently retired, Carole Seddon is residing in the Fethering the cottage she purchased with her ex-husband. Theree she maintains a quiet and sensible life with the companionship of Gulliver, her Labrador retriever. But everything changes when she and Gulliver, while taking their daily constitutional, find a corpse on the beach. What's more, there are two wounds on its neck. The body mysteriously disappears and the police dismiss Carole as a befuddled middle-aged woman. She almost starts to believe it herself...until a stranger threatens her to keep quiet or else.

Unable to contain her anxiety, Carole confides in her eccentric neighbor, Jude—who suggests that if the police cannot be bothered to catch a killer, maybe they should do it themselves.

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Street Date:
04/20/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781481560368

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Simon Brett. (2009). The Body on the Beach. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Simon Brett. 2009. The Body On the Beach. Blackstone Publishing.

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Simon Brett, The Body On the Beach. Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

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Simon Brett. The Body On the Beach. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

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    Unable to contain her anxiety, Carole confides in her eccentric neighbor, Jude—who suggests that if the police cannot be bothered to catch a killer, maybe they should do it themselves.

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