Books like An amateur corpse by Simon Brett

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

In the cannily plotted streets of Renaissance Italy, a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, is tasked by Pope Alexander with uncovering the mystery of his beloved illegitimate son’s murder, whilst avoiding betrayal from the Borgia pope’s son.

Mystery on the London stage unfolds when a staged quarrel turns deadly, forcing Inspector Roderick Alleyn to untangle a web of theatrical deception and a real murder at the Unicorn Theatre.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

At London’s Vulcan Theatre, opening night is shattered when the lead actor is found dead backstage, and Sir Roderick Alleyn must untangle a murder that haunts the venue’s past.

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Actor‑detective Charles Paris is pulled into a mystery while touring a Hamlet production that features reality TV stars in the lead roles. A fatal accident among the troupe leads him to uncover hidden secrets onstage and offstage.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

When actor Charles Paris is cast in a provincial production of Macbeth, a sudden death forces him back into his familiar role as a private eye.

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Simon Brett’s detective novel follows actor‑turned‑amateur sleuth Charles Paris as he solves the murder of restaurant owner Yves Lafeu while uncovering hidden secrets in London’s theater world.

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