Situation Tragedy

📖 The Scoop

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fans of Richard Osman - but with added bite!

"Like a little malice in your mysteries? Some cynicism in your cosies? Simon Brett is happy to oblige" THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Few crime writers are as enchantingly gifted" THE SUNDAY TIMES

"One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . Perfect entertainment" THE GUARDIAN

"A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans" P.D. JAMES

"Murder most enjoyable" COLIN DEXTER
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A long-time actor - and part-time sleuth - snatching up a minor part in a sitcom
The crew mysteriously dying one by one . . .
The cast members acting most peculiar . . .
A fun sitcom turning into SITUATION TRAGEDY

Struggling actor Charles Paris has landed a solid - although minor - TV role that will give him some financial security over the next few months. But the constant waiting between takes, plus putting up with his fellow cast members - especially rude production assistant Sadie Wainwright - make it a harder job than he'd bargained for.

When Sadie is found dead, Charles has to put his amateur sleuthing skills to use again - and everybody has a strong motive to kill the unpopular PA. But with other members of the production crew dying seemingly accidentally, Charles just might have a serial killer to chase. Will he be able to solve the string of killings before the culprit turns his focus on the cast . . . with Charles next in line?

Fans of Agatha Christie, The Thursday Murder Club, Anthony Horowitz, Alexander McCall Smith, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will love this hilarious cozy traditional mystery series featuring one of the funniest antiheroes in crime fiction. Written over a fifty-year-period, it perfectly captures life and contemporary attitudes in 1970s London - and beyond!

READERS ADORE CHARLES PARIS:

"Breezy, snide fun" Kirkus Reviews

"What a delightful, cynical murder mystery . . . I'm giving this a rank I don't give out too often, reserved for special books that just have it all" Brayton's Book Buzz

"This novel, as well as the series as a whole, is an amusing romp, and light-hearted mystery that is a fast, but enjoyable read" Michael Bradley, award-winning author

"One of the many Charles Paris I've enjoyed, this is up there with the best of them" Douglas W., 5* GoodReads review

"A highly entertaining read from start to finish, with a cast of grotesques to delight the fan of cosies" Sophie R., 5* Amazon review

"Just settle back for an enjoyable and absorbing read" luglio27, 5* Amazon review

THE CHARLES PARIS MYSTERIES, IN ORDER:

1. Cast in Order of Disappearance
2. So Much Blood
3. Star Trap
4. An Amateur Corpse
5. A Comedian Dies
6. The Dead Side of the Mike
7. Situation Tragedy
8. Murder Unprompted
9. Murder in the Title
10. Not Dead, Only Resting
11. Dead Giveaway
12. What Bloody Man is That
13. A Series of Murders
14. Corporate Bodies
15. A Reconstructed Corpse
16. Sicken and So Die
17. Dead Room Farce
18. A Decent Interval
19. The Cinderella Killer
20. A Deadly Habit

Genre: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth (fancy, right?)