john g

The Southwick Coffin Club

The Southwick Coffin Club is not your typical murder mystery. Every Tuesday morning, in a quiet Sussex town that prefers its secrets buried deep, a small group of retirees meet to discuss death over tea and biscuits. Funeral songs are chosen. Wills are debated. Coffins are politely compared. It’s all harmless—until one of them dies mid-sentence. What begins as a macabre social club quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Led by sharp-witted widow Catherine Temple, the remaining members find themselves pulled into a decades-old mystery surrounding a teenage girl who vanished in 1974—and a powerful local figure who made sure the truth stayed hidden. As forgotten files resurface and long-buried guilt claws its way back into the light, the Coffin Club discover that someone is still willing to kill to protect the past. Darkly funny, deeply British, and laced with quiet menace, The Southwick Coffin Club blends cosy crime with razor-sharp social observation. Think tea cups, community halls, small-town politics—and murder hiding in plain sight. Because in Southwick, secrets don’t disappear. They just wait for the right people to dig them up.