Dead Romantic

By Simon Brett

Madeleine Severn is a tutor at the Garrettway School of Languages, she has a young outlook on life and is proud of her looks. Eighteen-year-old student Paul Grigson idolises Madeleine and during a date of his own he sees Madeleine with the married Bernard Hopkins. When Bernard arranges to meet Madeleine again, he feels jealous, but like most teenagers, Paul's moods change like a chameleon's. This is a romantic triangle surely destined for disaster and death.

Simon Brett is the winner of The CWA Diamond Dagger 2014.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers
• Release date: May 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781448301317

Simon Brett

Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full time. As well as the much-loved Fethering series, the Mrs Pargeter novels and the Charles Paris detective series, he has written a number of radio and television scripts. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs. You can find out more about Simon at his website: www.simonbrett.com

Reviews for Dead Romantic

[booklover3258 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Quick read. Good story. Nice twist at the end. Did not expect who the murderer was.

[someguyinvirginia · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A Brit nasty masquerading as a cozy. It’s a fun read though I didn’t buy Paul’s descent into madness. Irony seems to grease the wheels of fate in this one, and it has an odd power in that it demands and gets complicity from the reader in the dark deeds and morally ambiguous resolution. The first Brett I’ve read and I do want to read others by him.