Simon Brett worked as a producer with BBC radio before turning to writing full time. A former president of Britain’s Crime Writers Association, he is the creator of the Mrs. Pargeter mysteries and the Charles Paris series as well as the Fethering mysteries. He lives in southern England with his family.

Bill
Nighy is a multi-award-winning actor who has appeared in many TV dramas, including State of Play,
The Girl in the Café, and Page Eight, for which he received a
Golden Globe Best Actor nomination. He won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for his role as Billy Mack in Love Actually,
while his other films include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and the smash hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.