A Deadly Habit
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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
_______________________
A middle-aged actor - and sometimes sleuth - with a script that needs divine intervention!
One dead monk . . .
A heavy drinking session . . .
It's looking like A DEADLY HABIT!
Charles Paris has an unexpected - or divine? - stroke of good luck when he is cast as a monk in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, thanks to the influence of his old acquaintance and fellow cast member, international TV superstar Justin Grover.
Unfortunately, the script is terrible, and Charles's off-stage habits are less than pious. A heavy drinking session sees him passing out in his theatre dressing room and missing dinner - and with it the chance for long-lasting rapprochement - with his constantly estranged wife, Frances. Worse follows when Charles wakes up hungover and stumbles upon a dead body at the bottom of the stairs, then tells an unfathomable lie to the police! Can he atone for his sins by unmasking the killer?
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:
"Clever, well-paced" Publishers Weekly
"Excellent book, Simon Brett at his best. Roll on the next Charles Paris book" Davis, 5* Amazon review
"I love Charles Paris. He is without doubt the most attractive detective around, and Simon Brett is one of the wittiest of writers. I've enjoyed this book very much" G. McCullough, 5* Amazon review
"Brilliant book by a superb author. Highly recommend" 5* Amazon review
"Brett has again produced a marvellous book and I recommend it and the whole series" Jim, 5* Amazon review
"I really enjoy Simon Brett's Charles Paris books, and this one was no exception" Elaine, 5* Goodreads review
"A perfect read" Cynthia, 5* Goodreads 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
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
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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!
|Charles Paris has landed a part in a new West End play - but the production is halted when a body is discovered at the foot of the dressing room stairs. As one of the last people to have...
"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
_______________________
A middle-aged actor - and sometimes sleuth - with a script that needs divine intervention!
One dead monk . . .
A heavy drinking session . . .
It's looking like A DEADLY HABIT!
Charles Paris has an unexpected - or divine? - stroke of good luck when he is cast as a monk in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, thanks to the influence of his old acquaintance and fellow cast member, international TV superstar Justin Grover.
Unfortunately, the script is terrible, and Charles's off-stage habits are less than pious. A heavy drinking session sees him passing out in his theatre dressing room and missing dinner - and with it the chance for long-lasting rapprochement - with his constantly estranged wife, Frances. Worse follows when Charles wakes up hungover and stumbles upon a dead body at the bottom of the stairs, then tells an unfathomable lie to the police! Can he atone for his sins by unmasking the killer?
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:
"Clever, well-paced" Publishers Weekly
"Excellent book, Simon Brett at his best. Roll on the next Charles Paris book" Davis, 5* Amazon review
"I love Charles Paris. He is without doubt the most attractive detective around, and Simon Brett is one of the wittiest of writers. I've enjoyed this book very much" G. McCullough, 5* Amazon review
"Brilliant book by a superb author. Highly recommend" 5* Amazon review
"Brett has again produced a marvellous book and I recommend it and the whole series" Jim, 5* Amazon review
"I really enjoy Simon Brett's Charles Paris books, and this one was no exception" Elaine, 5* Goodreads review
"A perfect read" Cynthia, 5* Goodreads 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
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Starred review from June 10, 2013
Brett’s actor-sleuth, Charles Paris, makes a long-overdue comeback in his droll 18th outing (after 1998’s Dead Room Farce). Paris, a has-been, is delighted to get steady work in a new, offbeat English production of Hamlet, featuring reality-show stars Jared Root and Katrina Selsey as Hamlet and Ophelia, and set inside a gigantic model of the Danish prince’s skull. Root’s lack of acting talent raises the tension level on the production, as do his and Selsey’s efforts to out-diva each other. Before long, an “accident” and a murder allow Paris the chance to play amateur sleuth again. Golden-age fans will appreciate the fair-play whodunit, which demonstrates that the form can be adapted to a contemporary setting. Satirical touches, such as Paris’s reaction to a documentary about the 1455 Battle of St. Albans partially set in a shopping mall, keep the atmosphere on the lighter side. Brett has a rare gift for balancing humor and detection.
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July 16, 2018
Things are looking up for Charles Paris in British author Brett’s clever, well-paced 20th outing for the alcoholic, middle-aged actor (after 2014’s The Cinderella Killer). Frances, his estranged wife, has hinted that she will take him back if he stops drinking. Plus, he’s been offered a part in a West End show by actor Justin Grover, with whom he once worked in a regional production of Hamlet, the two playing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Justin has since gone on to become a brand, thanks to a major role in a movie franchise based on a computer game. In London, Charles soon realizes that other actors and members of the play’s stage crew are also beholden to Justin’s largesse. One evening, an inebriated Charles finds the lifeless body of a promising actor backstage. He can’t inform the police, since he can only sketchily remember his own movements. Worried about what he might or might not have done, he decides to investigate. Sobering asides about addictions and methods to overcome them somewhat dampen the sleuthing fun. Agent: Lisa Moylett, Coombs Moylett Maclean Agency.
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Can it be? Minor actor and major alcoholic Charles Paris (The Cinderella Killer, 2014, etc.) is finally trying to get a handle on his drinking.Unlikely as it seems, Charles has some powerful motivations for getting on the wagon. His ex-wife, Frances, has hinted at a closer rapprochement if he can kick the bottle, and he's been cast--just like that, without even an audition--in the West End performance of The Habit of Faith. Of course, it's only in the supporting role of "Brother Benedict, The Monk Who Just Listened To All Of The Other Monks Who Maundered On In Long Speeches About Their Own Internal Conflicts," but it's real money guaranteed for four months. On the down side, the old colleague who's invited Charles into the production, Justin Grover, has become the star of the television franchise Vandals and Visigoths, and his talent is no match for his vanity, and his leading (and only) lady, Liddy Max, has the bad timing to get killed--maybe in a fall, maybe some other way--during a break-in before The Habit of Faith can even open. But DI Tricker and DS Bowles accept without question Charles' perfunctory denial that he was in the theater at the time, and the show goes on with scarcely a hitch with understudy Imogen Whittaker in the coveted role of The Girl. Sadly, there's not much detective work of any kind here: The real drama is watching Charles, who's never met a glass of water that couldn't be improved by a shot of Bell's, try AA, a less minatory program called TAUT, and his own willpower as he waits for the information that will identify the killer without providing enough evidence to prosecute.An agreeable, efficient, low-impact backstage whodunit from a savvy veteran, with just enough excerpts from earlier reviews of the hero's storied career to keep up the snark quotient.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"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
_______________________
A middle-aged actor - and sometimes sleuth - with a script that needs divine intervention!
One dead monk . . .
A heavy drinking session . . .
It's looking like A DEADLY HABIT!
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