Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year's Honours 'for services to literature' and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work. simonbrett.com
A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans -- P. D. James One of the wittiest crime writers around -- Antonia Fraser Simon Brett writes the kind of good whodunits that could have been written fifty years ago... and he has a sly sense of humour * * Times * * Simon Brett is one of British crime's most assured craftsmen, with idiosyncratic characters proving winning creations... A feast of red herrings, broadly drawn characters, and gentle thrills and spills litter the witty plot. Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment * * Guardian * * One of the exceptional detective story writers around * * Telegraph * * Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted... as Simon Brett * * Sunday Times * * 'Murder most enjoyable . . . An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry' -- Colin Dexter Deftly contrived, light-hearted mysteries * * Times * *