Mrs, Presumed Dead

By Simon Brett,

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The second crime novel featuring Mrs Melita Pargeter in which she investigates the bizarre disappearance of the former occupants of her home. It seems they may have vanished permanently. Simon Brett is former Producer of Light Entertainment for BBC Radio and for LWT. He is also author of "A Nice…

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What I love about this book, and the entire Mrs. Pargeter series, is the delicious way Mrs. Pargeter tiptoes around “strictly legal” in the pursuit of what is right and good. Thanks to the faithful friends and loyal former associates of her late husband (whose own career doesn’t bear scrutiny), she is free to exercise her insatiable curiosity about whatever is going on around her.

In this book, it is a feeling that something is a bit off in her new neighborhood that leads to another fun story. I feel a kinship with her refusal to fit herself into the…

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