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    Reconstructed Corpse

    By Simon Brett

    3.5/5

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    Charles Paris's acting career plumbs new depths when he takes on the part of a possible murder victim in Public Enemies, a true-crime TV series. Finding himself in a bizarre world somewhere between police procedure and showbiz, Charles can't help getting involved in the investigation - especially when dismembered limbs start turning up.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781448300181
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    Reconstructed Corpse
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    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

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    • 5/5
      Charles Paris has always mocked those who considered themselves to be actors and demeaned their noble profession by appearing in televised reconstructions for real life crime dramas.As the title of this tome suggests, times are hard; bottles of Bells whisky are not buying themselves and our hero is reduced to taking such a job. Charles' personal life has hit rock bottom and the light at the end of the tunnel has been extinguished. The only thing that seems to get through to Paris is the conundrum of this missing man case, where things don't quite add up.Simon Brett's great forte is that he writes in such a way that the reader feels superior to the detective but is fooled by a twist at the end. Greatly enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Probably the last thing I need to discover is another detective series, but I fear I have. Charles Paris is an actor. not a very good one, based on how little work he does, or some of the review notices he has memorised. He has an estranged wife who, at times, barely tolerates him, he lives in a miserable bedsit and is on more than first name terms with the contents of the whiskey bottle. But he's somehow honest, open, inquisitive (but not to the point of prying) and comes across as a nice man, trying his best in an un-nice world. In this case, he is cast to play the missing man in a crime scene reconstruction for a TV real crime show (I'm thinking Crimewatch, but on ITV). There is a fair it about the ins and outs of TV production, the glamour it casts over people, the battle for ratings and the lengths people will go to be on the box. In this case those are pretty far. Initially he's not too involved, intellectually, but something starts to itch at him and he starts to do some digging around. There are some blind alleys, but the resolution was quite unexpected. I listened to this, narrated by the author. It was on the library' audiobook shelf and I recognised the author and character as being one that has been reviewed on a thread in the 100 book group. The reviews tended to be positive, so I gave it a go. I liked the tone, full of wry remarks and sarcastic observations. I see this is number 15 in the series, but I really don't think that jumping into the middle impaired my enjoyment of the book. One I will look out for again.
    • 4/5
      Simon Brett's A Reconstructed Corpse is a fun mystery. Charles Paris, a down and out actor, has been hired to play the role of a missing man on a true crime series called "Public Enemies." Think re-enactment shows like "Unsolved Mysteries" or more recently, "America's Most Wanted." Charles's role goes from that of a missing man to a presumed murdered man when body parts start showing up each week...right before airing. It's a little too mysterious for Charles and soon he finds himself not only playing the dead man, but amateur detective on the side.