Dick Francis's Bloodline
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4.0 • 119 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Another great best-selling mystery from the grand master of the genre...
When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument - and it’s the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel...or so it seems.
Devastated and guilty over her death, Mark goes in search of answers. What had led Clare to take her own life? Or was it not suicide at all?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Francis ably follows in the footsteps of his father, Dick Francis, with his second stand-alone set in the English horse racing world (after 2011's Dick Francis's Gamble). Mark Shillingford, a TV commentator who covers horse races, is ridden with guilt over an argument he had with his jockey twin sister, Clare, after discovering that she was losing some races deliberately. In the aftermath of the confrontation, an angry Mark lets Clare's phone messages go to voicemail, a choice he regrets after Clare apparently leaps to her death from a London hotel window. Mark resolves to discover what really happened in the hotel room before the fatal plunge. Suspecting that his sister's cheating was more extensive than she admitted, he studies old video images of her recent races to spot a pattern that may identify those who wanted her dead to cover up the fraud. Fans will have a hard time distinguishing this solid thriller from the father's work.
Customer Reviews
'Bloodline' by Felix Francis
An excellent and promising start for the son of the talented Dick Francis. Where once there was despair at the loss of a monumental mystery fiction author when the senior Mr. Francis followed his wife Mary in death, I now have the giddy sense of anticipation to see what will follow in the writings of their brilliant and diversely trained son. 'Gamble' was good, but 'Bloodline' was true to the Francis legacy- Well done, Felix!