Hell On Wheels
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
When Odelia Grey and her husband, Greg, attend a rugby match to cheer for their quadriplegic friends, the last thing they expect is to witness a murder on the playing court. Complicating matters is their friendship with the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Odelia's pompous boss is embroiled in a mystery of his own—one that leaves more than his super-sized ego bruised and battered. Odelia enlists the help of family and friends, and gets some surprising assistance from out of left field. But with a murderer calling the shots, Odelia wonders if she can tackle this dangerous case or if she's out of her league.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Early in Jaffarian's action-filled ninth mystery featuring plus-size paralegal Odelia Grey (after 2013's Secondhand Stiff), Odelia and her paraplegic husband, Greg Stevens, watch quad rugby, a "game played by quadriplegics in wheelchairs on a regulation basketball court," at Balboa Park's Municipal Gymnasium in San Diego, Calif. In the finals, a brawl between their friend Rick Henderson of the Laguna Lunatics and Peter Tanaka of the Ventura Vipers ends in Peter's death. Earlier, an on-court remark by Peter led to a confrontation between Rocky and Rocky's wife, Miranda, who stormed out of the gym. Later, Odelia's difficult boss, Mike Steele, who's been into a scrap of his own, needs her to cover for him at work while he recuperates. Meanwhile, law-firm head honcho Simon Tobin wants Odelia to do a little digging in a personal matter involving his mother and a mystery woman calling herself Eudora Fox. Jaffarian neatly pulls all the plot lines together for a satisfying outcome.
