"Sticks in the mind long after you've quoted all the funny bits to your friends."
New Yorker

"Wickedly entertaininga sure-fire, acid-tongued winner."Publishers Weekly

"Splendidly enjoyablethe jokes are excellent, but the most horrible things keep happening."
Sunday Telegraph

Life always seems to be more complicated than it should be for Charlie Mortdecai: degenerate
aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and confirmed coward.

Something Nasty in the Woodshed finds Charlie exiled from London due to his growing
unpopularity on account of some shady art deals. Taking refuge in a country estate on the
Channel Island of Jersey, he embarks on a well-intended hedonistic interlude. But his vacation
soon morphs into a macabre manhunt, as Charlie seeks to expose a local rapist whose modus
operandi bears a striking resemblance to that of a warlock from ancient British mythology known
as "The Beast of Jersey."

Kyril Bonfiglioli (1928-1985) was an art dealer, accomplished fencer, a fair shot with most weapons, and a serial marrier of beautiful women. He claimed to be "abstemious in all things except drink, food, tobacco, and talking" and "loved and respected by all who knew him slightly."

Simon Prebble, a British born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobook titles. As one of AudioFile's "Golden Voices," he has received over twenty Earphones Awards. He lives in New York.