Blood at the Bookies - Fethering, Bk 9 Author:Simon Brett The bets are on whodunnit when a body is found at the bookies ... Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole, on the other hand, thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski the race is on to find his killer. — The odds aren't... more » looking good. No one seems to know anything about the mysterious Tadeusz -- even his sister can't shed any light on what he was doing in Fethering. Who was the anonymous woman in the bookies who seems to have vanished? Why was Tadeusz interested in the local university? And who is the Fifi he spoke of with his dying breath? As they question the local residents, Carole finds an unexpected friend in an inveterate gambler and Jude finds herself in potentially more trouble than she can handle with a lecherous and charming drama professor.
In this race there can only be one winner, wit with no real leads and several suspects in the running, will our lady detectives be pipped at the post by a cold and calculating killer?« less