Warm Bodies
A Short Story
By: John Marrs
Narrators: Elizabeth Knowelden, Lucy Rayner
ISBN: 978-1662536366
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
Publication Date: 11/01/2026
Format: e-book
My Rating: TBR
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author comes a chilling tale about Brenda: they watched her, judged her, and talked. They should have left her alone.
Brenda lives quietly in a picture-perfect English village. She looks after her grandchildren, restores old furniture, and keeps herself to herself. She’s the sort of neighbour people feel comfortable judging.
And judge they do. Because villages notice everything. The shopping. The visitors. The hours kept behind closed doors. And when the local WhatsApp group begins to turn its attention to Brenda, curiosity hardens into suspicion, and gossip becomes a sport.
As scrutiny tightens, Brenda finds herself navigating busybodies, moral crusaders and a community that believes it knows best. What they don’t know is that Brenda has spent a lifetime solving problems discreetly.
Methodically. Permanently.
And she is very good at it.
The village may come to regret not minding its own business.
From the Publisher
Warm Bodies is a wickedly dark comedy thriller set in a picture-perfect English village where nothing is quite what it seems. For fans of Bad Sisters and Dead to Me, internationally bestselling author John Marrs masterfully balances macabre humor with genuine emotion, delivering a fiendishly funny tale of small-town secrets, toxic community warfare, and one woman’s fierce determination to protect her family at any cost.
—Sammia Hamer, Editor
About the Author
John Marrs is an author and former journalist based in Northamptonshire, England. After spending his career interviewing celebrities from the worlds of television, film and music for numerous national newspapers and magazines, he is now a full-time author. This is his fifteenth book. Follow him at www.johnmarrsauthor.com, on Instagram @johnmarrs.author and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/johnmarrsauthor.
