Death on the Downs (Fethering Mystery #2)

It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the Downs, or the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two Green fertiliser bags ... Carole and Jude's enquiries take them to the small downland hamlet of Weldisham and there gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin Lutteridge, a young woman who disappeared from the village months before. So why is Tamsin's mother, a friend of Jude's, so certain that her daughter is still alive? As Jude sets out to find Tamsin, Carole digs deeper into Weldisham's history and the bitter relationships simmering beneath the village's gentle façade. 'Welcome return for Brett's lady sleuths ... As crime gets a harder edge, it's refreshing to have an amiable light-hearted tale, which makes the most of wit and atmosphere' - Yorkshire Post Strait-laced Carole and her laid back neighbour Jude return in the second of Simon Brett’s Fethering Series. It wasn’t the rain that upset during Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn’t the dilapidated barn in which she took shelter. No, what upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there...So begins the second investigation for Carole and her neighbour Jude. This time their enquires take them away from Fethering to the small hamlet of Weldisham. There gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin Lutteridge, a young woman who disappeared from the village months before. Detective Sergeant Baylis will confirm nothing. So why is Tamsin’s mother, a friend of Jude’s, so certain her daughter is still alive? And why is the unstable Brian Helling so keen to announce that there is a serial killer on the loose...?