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The Clutter Corpse

By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Simon Brett
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Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is a dead body.

When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things - but is he really the killer?

Discovering a link between the victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth. But where has her best friend disappeared to? And is Ellen really prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?

©2020 Simon Brett (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd Amateur Sleuths Cosy Detective Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction
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Again loved this book for so easy to listen to looking forward to the next book

Love Simon Brett

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Nice to start a new series and I usually love the stuff written by Simon Brett, but I feel this one slightly missed the mark…
I would definitely agree with other reviews about the narration, I think it should be a female narrator, in the first chapter, I even mistook the main characters name for ‘Alan’ rather than ‘Ellen’ because of this!
Also, Ellen is painfully dull, and the story is kept going by the much more colourful cast of supporting characters, which is a shame. Perhaps a different narrator could have breathed in a bit more personality in the reading of her character??
I would probably listen to more of the series if they were on sale, but definitely not at full price.

Good start to a series

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A great mystery with a good dollop of mental health issues. I liked (most of) the characters in "the clutter corpse" and I have also enjoyed plenty of Simon Brett's other mysteries.

Unfortunately a bit too much sniffing and deep breaths which were a little distracting at times in the performance.

A great mystery

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Having become totally addicted the Feathering Mysteries I approached this first offering in Simon Brett’s ‘new series’ The Clutter Corpse with a degree of trepidation…would it live up to my expectations and if more books were to follow would I become equally addicted ..well if this is a taste of things to come I needn’t have worried.
Just the right amount of twists and turns with characters that are believable and have the potential to be further fleshed out in future outings.
The writing is crisp and concise and the narration is as always first class .
I can throughly recommend it.

A Taste of things to come?

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I think the characters could grow on me. I still like Mrs Pargeter. I wish we could have the rest of the books. Also I like the Fethering stories but I've heard all those.

I liked it

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