Death and the Decorator (Fethering Mystery)

Jude's decision to redecorate her cottage leads to a meeting with a local decorator and a surprising discovery behind a wall panel in a Victorian building: a woman's handbag! The discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag's owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier.

Reviews

An edgy cozy, filled with dry wit and deft plot twists * Booklist Starred Review *
The familiar but still unlikely duo play to their strengths in this mannerly cozy * Kirkus Reviews *
Brett is brilliant at showing how throwaway comments and casual snubs intensify cruelty to outsiders. This is an especially incisive Fethering adventure with a shocker of an ending * Booklist Starred Review of Guilt at the Garage *
Slyly witty . . . Well-developed subplots support the intricate narrative.Brett proves once again to be a master of the amateur sleuth genre * Publishers Weekly on Guilt at the Garage *
Ingeniously drawn characters, deft timing of twists, and a to-die-for climax. A stunner * Booklist Starred Review of The Killer in the Choir *
Peppered with wry wit, the story unfurls smoothly and swiftly * Publishers Weekly on The Killer in the Choir *