Simon Brett: A Disorganised Death
Decluttering Mystery #5
I love series fiction. I’m sure I love it for the reasons many others love it – the deep and extended look at characters we grow to love as readers. Some we love so much they seem real, to the point where when a series character is occasionally killed off, readers revolt and grieve, as though the characters actually were real, not fictional. Simon Brett has written several series (Charles Paris, Mrs. Pargeter, Feathering) but I am hooked on this one.
This series follows Ellen and her family – she’s a widow with two twenty something children and an irritating and self-involved mother, Fleur. By book five they are now old friends I am happy to reunite with, though Brett writes in such a way that a reader could enjoy the books in any order. Ellen works as a home declutterer – often helping hoarders come to terms with their reasons for hoarding and letting go of some of their stuff.